THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

How real is Bolivia

With its snowy Andes lifting over the modern city

Now that one is in La Paz

Which means the peace in Spanish

Tho the natives speak their native tongue

Especially the women in brown bowler hats

Sitting in the mud with their hands over their noses

Selling black potatoes and blue onions

In the market place which covers the hillside

Over which one can see electrical towers

And airplanes landing from Santiago and Lima Caracas

Allen Ginsberg, “To Frank O’Hara & John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch”, in Morgan/Uncollected