Allen Ginsberg. “Last night in Calcutta”

In this poem I could go on to summarize what would be seemingly sleeping in a dankish hot room in India, but that would be boring. Instead I will focus on the lines of the poem that seem the most out of place to me, or the hardest to understand. The last 3 lines of the poem begin with a hyphen and it  says “—Leave immortality for another to suffer like a fool, / not get stuck in the corner of the universe / sticking morphine in the arm and eating meat.” (lines 38-40). The previous lines seem to elude to the narrator having pain in the kidney.  “Skin is sufficient to be skin, that’s all / it ever could be, tho screams of pain in the kidney / dying to finish its all too famous misery”(lines 34-37). It would seem that the narrator is in pain and doesn’t want to die in Calcutta. I would say the significance of the morphine would at least be symbolic of an unwillingness to let go. I would also make so bold of an assumption as to say that “eating meat.” is a reaction against the Indian culture in which many are vegetarian. It seems the narrator wants to go back to New York or Bangkok (line 33) but I couldn’t say why. Let me say that there is at least some more structure to this poem compared to many of ginsberg’s others which makes it easy to read, but it is still filled with vagueness, the likes of which I have experienced far too much since beginning this course.