Ginsberg lists enumerations of products in the supermarket (peaches, watermelons, pork chops, bananas, artichokes); enumerations of images that he had craved for (neon fruit, penumbras, happy families shopping there), as well as surreal images that make a peculiar, consumerist mix of products and people ("wives in the avocados", "babies in the tomatoes", "Angel"). All of these enumerations construct an assortment of Ginsberg's inspiration during one night spent in an American supermarket and on the L.A. streets, along with pondering on Walt Whitman, his role and position as an individual and a leading American poet.
