An original manuscript haiku poem from the American poet, philosopher and writer, who has written out fully twice an improvised poem, the first four lines in a larger hand, identifying it below with an arrow as "First Draft": "Father sleeping next room / Thin, too weak to take off his sweater / La Traviata's violins over the radio / Trilling sadly." and then, in a smaller, neater hand, more or less the same four lines, identifying these with an arrow as "Fair Copy," and signing between the versions, "Allen Ginsberg / 10:30 PM Apr 27, 1976." Along the lower edge, he has identified the manuscript as "Haiku created Paterson, NJ to answer Channel 13 request for auctionable item. This is the only copy existant."  Usual folds, else fine. 8 x 10.5 inches. Together with an annotated envelope from the Channel 13 Auction.

"Allen Ginsberg has been spending a lot of time in Paterson, New Jersey, lately. He stays in a spacious, softly-furnished three-room apartment in a modern brick building in the suburban East End of the city. The telephone—like the one in his Lower East Side apartment—needs frequent attention, wired into Allen’s network of involvements, which lately have included recording an album and touring with (Bob) Dylan. But much of Allen’s attention these days goes to his 80-year-old father, Louis, who is seriously ill with a malignant tumor. At the Paterson apartment Allen shares with his second wife, Edith, Allen is mostly a son, giving care and company to his father." (Alan Ziegler‘s account of visiting with Allen, and Louis shortly before his father’s death, first published in The Village Voice in July of 1976)