Variations on Ma Rainey's See See Rider - Allen Ginsberg

Variations on Ma Rainey's See See Rider

I've been down at the bus stop

Buy my jellyroll there

If I can't sell it in Memphis

you can

buy it in Eau St. Claire.

See See Rider

you got me

in your chair

But if I have my fanny

can sell it anywhere

See what I want today

yes yes yes

Need a man who really can do

anything I say

Do that for me

Then I

guess I

won't go away.

Go way go way go way from here

look for all old gray home

I can live by myself and

ring my telephone

Dirty pictures on my new TV

Just now turned them on

I don't need you and your

mamma's long time gone.

Allen Ginsberg March 3, 1997.