Kissass

Kissass - meaning Summary

Erotic Demand for Reconciliation

Ginsberg presents a blunt, provocative slogan: mutual submission—"kissass"—as the necessary act for peace. The poem insists that Americans must humble themselves toward the earth and across racial lines, framing eroticized or degrading intimacy as a paradoxical route to social and ecological harmony. Its compressed, declarative utterance compresses political, racial, and environmental claims into a single, transgressive imperative.