Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 248

The whole operation fell into chaos

Till U.S. Intelligence came into Laos

I’ll tell you no lie I’m a true American

Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosovan

All them princes in a power play

But Phoumi was the man for the CIA

And his best friend General Vang Pao

Ran our Meo army like a sacred cow

Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng’s bars

In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars

It started in secret they were fighting yesterday

Clandestine secret army of the CIA

All through the Sixties the Dope flew free

Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshal Ky

Air America followed through

Transporting confiture for President Thieu

All these Dealers were decades and yesterday

The Indochinese mob of the U.S. CIA

Operation Haylift offisir Wm. Colby

Saw Marshal Ky fly opium Mr. Mustard told me

Indochina desk he was Chief of Dirty Tricks

“Hitchhiking” with dope pushers was how he got his fix

Subsidizing traffickers to drive the Reds away

Till Colby was the head of the CIA

January 1972

II

N.S.A. Dope Calypso

Now Richard Secord and Oliver North

Hated Sandinistas whatever they were worth

They peddled for the Contras to ease their pain

They couldn’t sell Congress so Contras sold cocaine

They discovered Noriega only yesterday

Nancy Reagan & the CIA

Now coke and grass were exchanged for guns

On a border airfield that John Hull runs

Or used to run till his Costa Rican bust

As a CIA spy trading Contra coke dust

They discovered Noriega only yesterday

Nancy Reagan & the CIA

Ramon Milian Rodriguez of Medellin Cartel

Laundered their dollars & he did it very well

Hundreds of millions through U.S. banks

Till he got busted and sang in the tank

It was buried in the papers only yesterday

When Bush was Drug Czar U.S.A.

Milian told Congress $3,000,000 coke bucks

Went to Felix Rodriguez, CIA muck-a-muck

To give to the Contras only Hush Hush Hush

Except for Donald Gregg & his boss George Bush

Buried in the papers only yesterday

With Bush Vice President U.S.A.

Rodriguez met Bush in his office many times

They didn’t talk business, they drank lemon & limes

Or maybe they drank coffee or they smoked a cigarette

But cocaine traffic they remembered to forget

It was buried in the papers only yesterday

And Bush got in the White House of the U.S.A.

Now when Bush was director of the C.I.A.

Panama traffic in coke was gay

You never used to hear George Bush holler

When Noriega laundered lots of cocaine dollar

Bush paid Noriega, used to work together

They sat on a couch & talked about the weather

Then Noriega doublecrossed his Company pal

With a treaty taking back our Panama Canal

So when he got into the big White House

Bush said Noriega was a cocaine louse

The Cold War ended, East Europe found hope

The U.S. got hooked in a war on dope

Glasnost came, East Europe got free

So Bush sent his army to Panama City

Bush’s guns in Panama did their worst

Like coke fiends fighting on St. Marks & First

Does Noriega know Bush’s Company crimes?

In 2000 A.D. read the New York Times.

January-February 1990

III

Just Say Yes Calypso

When Schwarzkopf’s Father busted Iran’s Mossadegh

They put in the Shah and his police the Savak

They sucked up his oil, but got Ayatollah’s dreck

So Thirty years later we hadda arm Iraq

Though he used poison gas, Saddam was still our man

But to aid the Contras, hadda also arm Iran

Mesopotamia was doing just fine

Till the Ottoman Empire blew up on a mine

They had apple orchards in Eden and Ur

Till the Snake advised George Bush “This land is yours”

The Garden foul’d up, brimstone came down

In the good old days we had plenty ozone

The British & Americans & Frenchmen all

Took concessions in the Garden So the Garden took a fall

Got addicted to Emirs and their fossil fuels

Police state Sheiks & Intelligence ghouls

The Sphinx lost his nose, acid ate the Parthenon

Pretty soon the Persian Gulf is dead and gone

The Saudi desert bloomed with oil pipe lines

To push the auto industry It’s yours & it’s mine