Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 155

          above cloud cities

toward another gateway of Police Boys

     & State Powers convened

Clocks Ticking two centuries

          now America

approaching the great Ah of all cities

     burning under Clouds, Conscious

          of Death Machines Downtown.

                         Ah, for the garden—

After conversation with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, Boulder, Spring 1972

II

O Peaceful & Wrathful Dieties & Politicians Rejoice, Rejoice

          left and right!

Ah! liberty—we here together conscious of

          heart’s feeling ah!

Massacre ah! selling images in America

          bellied meadow bombcrater photo mind

               scream face skin afire

          eyes penetrated by war needles

Ah! to the Heart from Heart ever Grateful

     for mercy human understanding sigh—

Ah! for our loves dead & gone

Ah! for miseries we caused, youthful screaming

          Pig Cop selves

     Violence in other streets and nations

          Heads of State

               eyes flashing angry—

Ah! that we know ourselves better,

     Ah! that America rise from

          the dead matter

& transcend this body heavy asphalt usury

          being with each other

          Trembling with city hatred

          dropping acid Death Fear

     lovelessness alone on metal

          planet floor—or

          grass green meadow

among Equal Creatures, trees flourishing their Barken Kind leaf flared—

ah What Seek we in Miami Heaven Earth

          But End to Fear

Ah! to rejoice in World Illusion

     airplane sound street body under sky—

Apocatastasis Ah!

               Release of our knowledge

                         our suffering in kind—

Ah! together, ah! make peace!

     Ah What is this lightness that we know

          body empty & the mind

               Myriad Ah’d in Mid Metropolis zonked

                    & baffled by its own Being,

Angers, Loves & Wars—Great Politics shakes

          planet tremors through our souls—

Ah! Great Consciousness Here

Salutations to the Great Self we come to know

Ah to All souls, Republican empty as

Democrat—Identity we Citizens

          share this late century

Conscious after matter madness

          Drunkenness-drug’d manufacture

               Business Consumption

                    Transitory petrochemical toy

                         plastic aluminum

               airconditioned hotel & old folks

                         home atrembling in our mortal bed

for the Big Nigger, the FBI the CIA the

          NLF the ITT USSR the U.S.A.

Great Government Robot State

     above us dominates our news,

takes up our telephone time labor paper work

     in Magic War,

Ah! that we return to our Bodies alert

     electric limb’d, lungs & heart

               empty tingling, lightness

          we all know Heaven on Earth

          Our Will Be Thine as we Say

Our Ah—of Suffering Understood,

          our life itself in pain

     Ah! our ignorance! our desire!

Ah to know that suffering ends,

          surrendered self’s sweet death—

our Ah to search the way together thru

                         some Eightfold Endless Path!

Ah! for the Hell we have made in America,

          Ah for the Heaven we see among Us

Ah! for the Earth we are here!

Ah Miami streets, hotels lobbies crowded

          auditorium! Ah for the fat sad police—

               Ah for sad soldiers forlorn all over the world

Ah for the Madman in White House asylum

          who dreams Planet Fate—

Depression armaments? Conspicuous

     Consumption Cars! Great Ah

Protect us! Ah! for the Petrochemical Wonderland,

     Conscious vast glittery buildings

                         fog dream neon’d

                              for Magical Emphasis

                    Hypnosis Money

A billfold full of Ah!

          Ah! credit card plastic

               broke in wastebasket

Ah for Cosa Nostra, Imagined or Real

               Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ah Mayor Daley, Senator Humphrey voluble