Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 147

Grasshoppers in cold dewy fall grass

                                             Singing lovesongs as they die.

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Morning, the white rabbit stiff, eyes closed,

                         lain belly up in grass, tooth nosed,

                                        beside the manure pile—dig a hole

                         —Shoulda introduced him to dogs in daylight—

Cripple Jack drove up

                         to judge the ducks—

                                             All eggs sterile,

                    smashed on rock, wet guts

                                             & rotted-throat smell—

                    Bedraggled duck mother,

                                             dragged off straw nest

                                             & pecking skin at my wrist,

                                        All afternoon walked up and down quacking

                                             thru chickenwire fence

Pig on her side woke up,

                         slurped beet juice, rooted at porch wood

               ignorant of broken head bones—

Morning dew, papery leafs & sharp blossoms

                         of sunflower ripped off battered stalks,

               Who’d do that!? Too late

                         to fix the barbed wire fence,

                         intelligent Bessie Cow strays in the moonlight.

Leary’s climbed the chainlink fence & two strands of

                                             barbedwire too

                                        This weekend, “Armed & Dangerous,”

                                             Signed with Weathermen!

                                        Has Revolution begun? World War III?

May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or

                                        gunsight at his white haired face!

Now’s halfmoon over America,

                         leaves tinged red fall blush scattered overhill,

                         down pasture singular trees orange foreheads think

                                             Autumn time in pines—

                         The maple at woods’ edge fire-red’s brighter

Australian Aborigines’ Eternal Dream Time’s come true—

Usta be bears on East Hill; fox under old Hemlock,

Usta be otter—even woolly mammoths in Eternal

                                             dream time—

Leary’s out in the woods of the world—cockroaches immune

                                             to radiation?

Richard Nixon has means to end human Worlds,

                                             Man has machines for Suicide,

Pray for Timothy Leary in the planet’s Woods!

                                             Om Mani Padme Hu?

                                             & Hare Krishna!

“ As we forgive those who trespass against us,

                                             Thy Will be done

                                             on Earth as in Heaven”

                                   Oh Bessie you ate my unborn sunflowers!

“God never repeats himself” Harry Smith telephoned tonite.

We may not come back, Richard Nixon.

                    We may not come back, dear hidden Tim.

Will Peter fix the sink’s hand pump? the basement freeze?

Backyard grasses stink, if kitchen drains

                                   to septic tank, will Bacteria die

                                             of soap, Ammonia & Kerosene?

Get rid of that old tractor or fix it!

                                   Cardboard boxes rotten in garageside rain!

Old broken City desks under the appletree! Cleanum

                                        up for firewood!

Where can we keep all summer’s bottles?

               Gas pumps, broken mandolins, old tires—

                                             Ugly backyard—Shelf the garage!

Where stack lumber handy to eye?

Electric generator money? Where keep mops in Wintertime?

Leary fugitive, Sinclair sent up for a decade—

               though 83% of World’s illegal opium’s fixed

          in Central Intelligence Agency’s Indochinese Brain!

               Fed State Local Narcs peddle junk—

                              Nixon got a hard hat from Mafia,

Pentagon Public Relations boodle’s 190 million A.D. 1969.

                         J. E. Hoover’s a sexual blackmailer,

                                             Times pities “idealistic students”

                                             Police killed 4 Blacks in New Orleans

Fascism in America:—

     i.e. Police control Cities, not Mayors or philosophers—

          Police, & Police alone, cause most crime.

Preventive Detention now law in D.C.

Mexico & Senegal close borders to Adam Longhair

So many apples in abandoned orchards,

                                   and such fresh sweet Cider, supper tonite—

                                             onions & cabbage fried on iron—

                                   groundwells overflow, hydraulic ram

                                             works steady again,