Supermarket in California

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

    In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

    What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! — and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

    I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.

    I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

    I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective.

    We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.

    Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?

    (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)

    Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely.

    Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?

    Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

Allen Ginsberg

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John Cassavetes


Produced by Sam Shaw


Written by John Cassavetes


Starring Gena Rowlands
  Peter Falk 


Music by Bo Harwood


Cinematography Mitch Breit
  Al Ruban


Edited by David Armstrong
  Sheila Viseltear


Production
 company
 Faces International Films


Distributed by Cine-Source 


Release dates
 November 18, 1974


Running time
 155 minutes


 Country United States


Language English

A Woman Under The Influence

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