Read this stanza from Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California." We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen
delicacy, and never passing the cashier.
Ginsberg most likely uses long-line free verse here to
O draw attention to the poem's patterns of rhyme and meter.
O express his thoughts freely and without constraints
keep the content of the poem simple and easy to imagine.
show his desire to return to an unassuming existence.