Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 221
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they will fight
back all right—
Then to condemn
their armed men
and not molli
fy their fears
is sheer folly
O my dears!
Hypocrisy
is the key
to self fulfilling
prophecy
United States
you’re the greatest
Superdick
your big stick
& big mouth
North & South
causes fear—
Armies near
and armies far
or army talk
wherever you are
makes folks here
think you’re queer
Big gun boats
that you float,
big rumors
that you dote
on will be quoted
in Managua
Santiago
Buenos Aires
& Havana
as more dread
threat of war
and Central
America will
Mobilize
militarize
and devise
a defense,
it’s common sense.
Then to complain
that their plan
to fight back
is a pain in the neck
of the Pentagon—
Washington
is crazy, Man.
Hypocrisy
is the key
to self fulfilling
prophecy—
If you’re willing—
costs an eye
and an ear
mad with fear.
Intercontinental Hotel Bar, Managua
January 25, 1982, 11 P.M.
Happening Now?
Happening now? End of Earth? Apocalypse days?
President says “Armageddon!” $254 Billion Military Budget!
The 5 A.M. subway train leaves Times Square
Crowded with murderers & corpses sitting in dress suits,
Earphones listening to mechanical disco, infinite
Deaf universe of Walkman Happening now
While I drink Perrier at parties in Bel Air
Neutron bomb Nerve Bacteria gas, fruit fly recombinant
Germ plasm, Stratospheric X-ray laser
Anti-rocket beams, MX Cruise Stealth & Pershing missiles
In dream ten years ago I stood on a South Texas crossroad
Walked out alone from what City I couldn’t remember
Half the sky was covered with ink-black cloud
Tanks and bombers moved toward the distant horizon
February 7, 1982
A Public Poetry
The fact is, the Russians are sissies
And Chinese big yellow sissies too
Americans by their nature sissies
Ran away to the New World & beat up Indians,
Now we’re gonna let Peabody Coal take their Four Corners away!
So sissy we exploded Atom Bombs on Japs!
I myself a famous sissy, it takes one to know one
and know State Secretary XYZ a prissy sissy
Gave his nickels to Indian killer Juntas in Guatemala
Too freaked out to look El Salvador Deathsquads in the eye
Yelling tiny Nicaragua’s a big threat to undernourished Mexico!
President ABC’s the biggest sissy
Hollywood sissy
Bechtel Corporation sissy
Such a sissy he gave 200 Billion Dollars to Pentagon Bullies
frightened they’ll beat him up if he don’t let the Generals grab all his money
And the American public’s sissy too
Scared if they don’t give everything in their pockets to Defense Department
the muscle men at the Pentagon and tough guys at CIA’ll
beat up Congress and Supreme Court
and take over the whole Western Block.
April 6, 1982, 2:00 P.M.
“What You Up To?”
“Oh just hanging around
picking my nose …”
I replied, embarrassed
in Naropa’s corridor,
the Sanskrit professor’d saluted me
as Americans are wont to do—
What must he think my genius,
a large red blob on my
index finger tip—
But I suffer from Bell’s palsy
my lower eyelid slightly paralyzed
no longer conducts tears thru
my nostril
thus my nose corridors dry up
& crack, for five years
whenever I lift the handkerchief
from my face
a spot of red stains the pure
cotton & shames me.
When I walk with bent spine & cane
will my nose be caked with
blood black & ulcerous? tears
running down my cheeks
a bony pinkie picking at the
scarlet scab that got thick
overnight, I forgot to grease my
wrinkled snout the nite
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