Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 114
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4 hours punching at power steering tractor
brakes front & hind foot
giant insect specialized—
The whole populace fed by News
few dissenting on this train, I the lone beard who don’t like
Vietnam War—
Ninety nine airforce boys
lined up with their pants down forever.
Five Persons Wounded Cleveland Riots
Atlantic Next Stop for Jolly Space-men
Bubonic Plague Suspected in Prairie Dogs
U.S. Marine Offensive Operation Hastings
Communist Dead Toll Rose Almost 1000
Stratofortresses struck language language
Communist language language infiltration
South of 17th Parallel
“Psychedelic drugs no substitute for plain study
… Technicolored Delusion,
Many report visits to Heaven
… jumping the gun a bit”
George E. Turner said
“Eat well, Animal” with a package of dog food
and as for Negroes
“Work not rioting is Magic Formula”
And Johnson reiterated too, “our desire to engage in
unconditional discussions”
to end the war
“other side … concession
… not the slightest
indication”
More manpower would be required he said
flatly.
John Steinbeck,
flaxenhaired Yevtushenko wrote yr phantom
End the War
“Unconditional negotiations” sd Johnson
“Anywhere anytime” sd Johnson in the last poem
Yesterday Ky So. Vietnam sd
“Dissolve Vietcong
National Liberation Front—
and Peace”
Kennedy sd
“Give V.C. Negotiation Chair”
—irreconcilable positions, every year
United States proposes contradictions
backed with bomb murder,
backed with Propaganda—
Soldiers on this train think they’re fighting China
Soldiers on this train think Ho Chi Minh’s Chinese
Soldiers on this train don’t know where they’re going
John Steinbeck stop the war John Steinbeck stop
the war John Steinbeck stop the war.
And the French Army surrounded Madrid,
and the Spanish Army’d marched simultaneously surrounded Paris.
Then they found out
it was hopeless.
Generals sent messages,
Call off the attack!
and the Armies rushed to a neutral place confronted
& killed each other.
They just wanted to fight,
no question of Madrid or Paris, then.
—& Johnson backed
Saigon’s latest conditions:
N. Vietnam withdraw all aid,
Dissolve Withdraw Viet Cong.
These are conditions,
contradicting Johnson’s Unconditionals.
These languages are gibberish.
John Steinbeck thy language is gibberish,
thou’st lost the language war,
cantankerous phantom!
Newspaper language ectoplasm fades—
Everybody sneeze!
Lightning’s blue glare fills Oklahoma plains,
the train rolls east
casting yellow shadow on grass
Twenty years ago
approaching Texas
I saw
sheet lightning
cover Heaven’s corners
Feed Storage Elevators in gray rain mist,
checkerboard light over sky-roof
same electric lightning South
follows this train
Apocalypse prophesied—
the Fall of America
signaled from Heaven—
Ninety nine soldiers in uniform paid by the Government to Believe—
ninety nine soldiers escaping the draft for an Army job, ninety nine soldiers shaved
with nowhere to go but where told,
ninety nine soldiers seeing lightning flash
a thousand years ago
Ten thousand Chinese marching on the plains
all turned their heads to Heaven at once to see the Moon.
An old man catching fireflies on the porch at night
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