Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 247

El pato vuela, canta

     y corre, pero

     ninguno de las tres

          los hace bien.

Big yellow hibiscus faces

     with red noses—

Venetian sailors

     brought

          venereal disease

               to New World

now Millennial events

                    speed up?

Get off fossil fuels

     for transport

Get off oil addiction

Plastics could be

     recyclable

Zero Growth regenerative

     recycling as for

          thousands of years

          with the Tequesta

Get off this disposable

          binge—

& water! dont mess

          up the Oleta River Dont

     play with the big Snake

Can live without air

     8 minutes

Can live without water

          2–4 days

can live without food

     40–50 days—

Survive, clean up our

               air

Clean up water

Grow enuf food to

          keep everybody

               alive

Instructors: any

               indigenous populations

Indians, Africans,

          Tibetans, Bedouins

               Laplanders—

Chernobyl began

          the question—

How much can the

          Government lie?

(Miami Herald pervasive

          and controlling—)

Locally the Seminoles may

          be the Gurus.

With Steven Bornstein

November 16, 1990

Mistaken Introductions

or this marvelous hi Lama followed

          in here by screaming madwoman

          charging she was betrayed 10 years ago

          on one of the moons of Saturn

or, I want to introduce you to this

          universe which unfortunately

          doesn’t quite exist.

We set up luncheon at Rizzoli

          for the Tibetan photog who

          hadnt prepared his

          slides, it was a disaster—

May I introduce you to your

          prospective son-in-law—

          unfortunately today he’s drunk

               unshaven but a good

          businessman tomorrow

It’s a magnificent hotel

          just this week there’s no

          water to flush the toilet

          above the 10th floor

          where you’re staying and

we had a fire in the elevator

January 7, 1991

C.I.A. DOPE CALYPSO

CIA Dope Calypso

In nineteen hundred forty-nine

China was won by Mao Tse-tung

Chiang Kai-shek’s army ran away

They were waiting there in Thailand yesterday

Supported by the CIA

Pushing junk down Thailand way

First they stole from the Meo tribes

Up in the hills they started taking bribes

Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan

Collecting opium to sell to The Man

Pushing junk in Bangkok yesterday

Supported by the CIA

Brought their jam on mule trains down

To Chiang Rai that’s a railroad town

Sold it next to police chief brain

He took it to town on the choochoo train

Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day

Supported by the CIA

The policeman’s name was Mr. Phao

He peddled dope grand scale and how

Chief of border customs paid

By Central Intelligence’s U.S. A.I.D.

The whole operation, Newspapers say

Supported by the CIA

He got so sloppy & peddled so loose

He busted himself & cooked his own goose

Took the reward for an opium load

Seizing his own haul which same he resold

Big-time pusher a decade turned grey

Working for the CIA

Touby Lyfong he worked for the French

A big fat man liked to dine & wench

Prince of the Meos he grew black mud

Till opium flowed through the land like a flood

Communists came and chased the French away

So Touby took a job with the CIA