Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 149

in N.Y.C. heavy habit, cut airconditioners isolation from street nightmare smog heat study decentralized Power sources 10 years

not atomic thermopollutive monolith. Om. How many species poisoned biocided from Earth realms?

O bald Eagle & Blue Whale with giant piteous Cat Squeak—Oh Wailing whale ululating underocean’s sonic roar of Despair!

Sing thy Kingdom to Language deaf America! Scream thy black Cry thru Radio electric Aether—

Scream in Death America! Or did Captain Ahab not scream Curses as he hurled harpoon

into the body of the mother, great White Whale Nature Herself,

thrashing in intelligent agony innocent vast in the oil-can sick waters?

All Northvietnam bomb-Cratered ruined topsoil Laos in secrecy more bombs than many W W II’s!

Mekong swamp lethicided by Monsanto Pentagon Academy Death-brains!

What wisdom teaching this? What Mafia runs N.J.? What Mafia knew J. Edgar FBI?

What’s Schenley’s Whiskey trader Fleischmann’s Hoover Institute?

What opium’s passed thru CIA Agents’ airplane’s luggage in Saigon, Bangkok, Athens, Washington?

What narcotic agent’s not dependent on Shit for a living?

What Bank’s money created ex nihil serves orphan, widow, monk, philosopher?

or what Bank’s money serves real Estate Asphalt over widow’s garden? Serves old Nick in the Pentagon?

Old Indian prophecies believe Ghost Dance peace will Come restore prairie Buffalo or great White Father Honkie

be trampled to death in his dreams by returning herds’ thundering reincarnation!

Oh awful Man! What have we made the world! Oh man capitalist exploiter of Mother Planet!

Oh vain insect sized men with metal slaves by Great Lake Erie, tenderest Passaic & Hudson poisoned by dollars!

bid tampering probed in lackawanna Buffalo News headline folded on rubber floor, car vibrating smooth to sun ruddy woods’ dusk quiet—

Radio hissing cough words dashboard noisemusic—Any minute Apocalypse Rock!

Brown Pelican eggs softened by DDT. Seal’s livers poisoned to Northman. Oceans Dead 2000 A.D.?

Television Citizen 6% Earths human Americans ingest half the planet’s raw matter as alchemized by Syracuse Gen. Electric Power brown robot palace near 8 Lane Thruway’s Exit before Ramada Inn.

HXL Trucks sleeping on brokenearthed embankment past Iron-strutted passages,

fields aglitter with damp metallic garbage under th’electricwire trestles—

And woods survive into another Thanksgiving’s brown sacred silence—

Lights on cars front Western Lane gray twilight falls on rolling robotland.

November 1970

Milarepa Taste

Who am I? Saliva,

                         vegetable soup,

                                   empty mouth?

Hot roach, breathe smoke

                         suck in, hold, exhale—

                                        light as ashes.

Over Laramie

Western Air boat bouncing

     under rainclouds stippled

          down gray Rockies

                    Springtime dusk,

Look out on Denver, Allen,

          mourn Neal no more,

     Old ghost loves departed

     New lives whelm the plains, rains

          wash Rocky mountainsides

World turns under sun eye

     Man flies a moment Cheyenne’s

          dry upland highways

A tiny fossil brachiapod in pocket

     Precambrian limestone clam

                    fingernail small

four hundred fifty million years old

Brain gone, flesh passed thru myriad

     phantom reincarnations,

the tiny-ridged shell’s delicate

                    as hardened thought.

—over Laramie, Front Range

     pine gully snow pockets,

Monolith Cement plume smoke

     casting dust gas over

          the red plateau

     into the New World.

April 12, 1971

Bixby Canyon to Jessore Road (1971)

Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze

Tiny orange-wing-tipped butterfly

fluttering sunlit

from violet

blossom to violet

blossom

Ocean is private

you have to visit

her to see her

Garden undercliff

     Dewey Pinks,

          bitter Mint,

     Sea Sage,

          Orange flaming

               Paintbrush

     greenspiked fleurs,

     Thick dainty stalked

          Cow Parsley,

     Starleaf’d violet bushes,

     yelloweyed blue

          Daisy clump—

red brambled mature sour

               blackberry briars,

yellow budded

               Lupine

     nodding stalkheads

     in Sunwarm’d

               breezes

by the brooks tricklet

     wash in the ravine

               Bridged with cloud

Ruddy withwine morning

     glory’s tiny tender

                    cowbells,

     guarded by poison oak sprigs

                    oily hands

Green horned little

          British chickweed,

waxlight-leafed black

               seed stalk’s

     lilac sweet budcluster

Ah fluted morning

     glory bud

          oped