Read this excerpt from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California."I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?Why does the author most likely use free verse for this excerpt?

The lines sound like spontaneous questions someone might ask while walking through a supermarket. Free verse has no fixed rhyme or meter, so its flexible structure can imitate the rhythm of casual conversation. The excerpt is not mainly following a formal poetic pattern or telling an epic tale.

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