Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 253

May 20, 1992

PUT DOWN YOUR CIGARETTE RAG

Put Down Your Cigarette Rag (Dont Smoke)

Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke

Dont smoke

It’s a nine billion dollar

Capitalist Communist joke

     Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke

                         Dont smoke

Smoking makes you cough,

You cant sing straight

You gargle on saliva

& vomit on your plate

     Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke,

               Dont smoke smoke smoke smoke

You smoke in bed

You smoke on the hill

Smoke till yr dead

You smoke in Hell

     Dont smoke dont smoke in living Hell Dope Dope

          Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke

You puff your fag

You suck your butt

You choke & gag

Teeth full of crud

     Smoke smoke smoke smoke Dont dont dont

          Dont Dont Dope Dope Dope Dont Smoke Dont Dope

Pay your two bucks

          for a deathly pack

Trust your bad luck

          & smoke in the sack

     Dont Smoke Dont Smoke Nicotine Nicotine No

     No dont smoke the official Dope Smoke Dope Dope

Four Billion dollars in Green

’swat Madison Avenue gets

t’ advertise nicotine

& hook you radical brats

          Dont Smoke Dont Smoke Dont Smoke

               Nope Nope Dope Dope Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax

          Dopey Dope Dopey Dope Dope Dope dope dope

Black magic pushes dope

Sexy chicks in cars

America loses hope

& smokes and drinks in bars

          Dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke,

          dont smoke dont dont dont dont

          choke choke choke choke kaf kaf

          Kaf Kaf Choke Choke

          Choke Choke Dope Dope

Communism’s flopped

Let’s help the Soviet millions

Sell ’em our Coffin-Nails

& make a couple billions

          Big Bucks Big Bucks bucks bucks

               bucks bucks smoke smoke smoke smoke

                    smoke bucks smoke bucks Dope bucks big

                    Dope Bucks Dig Big Dope Bucks Big Dope

                         Bucks dont smoke big dope bucks

                              Dig big Pig dope bucks

Nine billion bucks a year

a Southern Industry

Buys Senator Jesse Fear who pushes Tobacco subsidy

In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

     Dope smokes dope smokes dont smoke dont smoke

          Cloak cloak cloak room cloak & dagger

          smoke room cloak room dope cloak

          cloak room dope cloak room dope dont smoke

Nine billion bucks for dope

approved by Time & Life

America loses hope

The President smokes Tobacco votes

     Dont Smoke dont smoke dont smoke dont smoke

          Dont smoke nope nope nope nope

20 thousand die of coke

     Illegal speed each year

400 thousand cigarette deaths

     That’s the drug to fear

          Dont smoke Dont smoke Dont smoke

Get Hooked on Cigarettes

Go Fight the War on Drugs

Smoke any other Weed

Get bust by Government Thugs

     Dont smoke dont smoke the official dope

If you will get in bed

& give your girlfriend head

then you wont want a fag

Nor evermore a drag

          Dont Smoke dont smoke Hope Hope Hope Hope

               O Please Dont Smoke Dont Smoke

               O Please O Please O Please

               I’m calling on my knees

Twenty-four hours in bed

& give your boyfriend head

Put something in your mouth

Like skin not cigarette filth

     Suck tit suck tit suck cock suck cock

          suck clit suck prick suck it

          but dont smoke nicotine dont smoke

          dont smoke nicotine nicotine it’s

          too obscene dont smoke dont smoke

          nicotine suck cock suck prick suck tit

          suck clit suck it But don’t smoke shit nope

          nope nope nope Dope Dope Dope Dope

               the official dope Dont Smoke

Make believe yer sick

Stay in bed and lick

yr cigarette habit greed

One day’s all you need