Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen - Страница 224
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Karme-Choling, April 4, 1983, 12:15 A.M.
221 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center
Headless husk legs wrapped round a grass spear, an old bee trembles in sunlight.
Since yesterday noon two Brown-eyed Susans stand before the outhouse door.
Tail turned to red sunset high on a spruce crown one lone chickadee tweets.
Moonless thunder—yellow dandelions flash in fields of rainy grass.
Mad at Oryoki in the shrine-room—Thistles blossomed late afternoon.
Put on my shirt and took it off in the sun walking the path to lunch.
A dandelion seed floats above the marsh grass with the mosquitos.
Empty clouds drift above me, birds chirp, a plane roar falls down through blue sky.
Electric noon—pine bough cicadas buzz outside the machineshop door.
At 4 A.M. the two middleaged men sleeping together hold hands.
In the half-light of dawn a few birds warble under the Pleiades.
Sky reddens behind fir trees as larks twitter and sparrows cheep cheep cheep.
July 1983
Caught shoplifting ran out the department store at sunrise and woke up.
August 1983
Fighting Phantoms Fighting Phantoms
Fighting phantoms we have car wrecks on Hollywood Freeway
Fighting phantoms th’Egyptians mummified Pharaohs & rich businessmen
Fighting phantoms a young Scotsman wore tennis shoes on the battleship deck
Fighting phantoms William S. Burroughs wrote umpteen novels
Fighting giant phantoms David picked up his sling
Fighting phantoms Chogyam Trungpa Vidyadara founded Shambhala Kingdom
Fighting phantoms pay federal taxes few write tax refusal forms
Fighting phantoms a Son of God ascended his wooden cross
Fighting summer phantoms muscular young musicians jumped up screaming in the twilit movie theater
Fighting phantoms Siddhartha meditated under a Bo tree
Fighting phantoms mysticism entered into the Catholic Church of Hollywood
Fighting phantoms a hundred thousand kids ordered purple Mohawks
Fighting phantoms various fairies chased adolescent athletes through steam bath locker rooms
Fighting phantoms the ruling class blew up the military budget, 244 Billion dollars 1985—of the tax pie 63% if past military debt interest & pensions’re added in
Fighting phantoms Ronald Reagan sent cocaine armadas to Central America
Fighting phantoms poets who smoked cigarettes denounced cigarettes—
Fighting phantoms New York Times printed thousands of editorial pages
Fighting phantoms Adolf Hitler shot more Methamphetamine & chewed the Bunker rug
Fighting phantoms thousands of poets become rather good at acid satire
Fighting phantoms Jimmy Dean stepped on the gas, Orson Welles ordered another cheesecake
Fighting phantoms Ernest Hemingway shotgunned his brain
Fighting phantoms Ezra Pound hated some Jews some hated Pound
Fighting phantoms Truman dropped two Atom Bombs
Fighting phantoms Einstein invented the theory of relativity
Mid-August 1983
Arguments
I’m sick of arguments
“You threw the butter in the pan”
“I did not you let it melt on the stove”
“You invaded Turkey and killed all the Armenians!”
“I did not! You invaded China got them addicted to Opium!”
“You built a bigger H Bomb than I did”
“You used poison gas in Indochina”
“Your agent orange defoliated ? the landmass It isn’t fair”
“You sprayed Paraquat”
“You smoke pot”
“You’re under arrest”
“I declare war!”
Why don’t we turn off the loudspeakers?
September 5, 1983
Sunday Prayer
An itch in the auditory canal scratches for years, use unguent,
Back pain a little, turn my head neck hurts
Balding long ago, gray whiskery hair inside ears
Eyes closed lying in bed, smart on my tongue, delicate
raw gums sore round some tooth roots—
From nineteenth year College chronic active Hepatitis
affects my kidney stones & high-blood pressure
Right cheek paralyzed slightly, eye squints tired,
lethargy dumps, no one’s abdomen to kiss,
cock skewed and lumpy erection aches—
Why show myself these sicknesses? Show anyone?
Wisdom & senescence, sickness and Death come
legended from Buddha to Kerouac—Myself
suddenly older—I made a mistake long ago.
September 25, 1983
Brown Rice Quatrains
Those high lunches needn’t matter
If you’re of businessman’s age
Anyway he enjoyed creating food
drifting across the Fragrant Nation
Who was it that began mouth talk
Gave the citizens thoughtful Saliva
Nature boy came close to Government
but secret police maintained ham & eggs
What tragedy for multiple Chickens
Think how pigs dream butcher night!
Sheep squawked nightmare, goat
fish sent regrets from meadow and sea
If he only could’ve made new Congress
We wouldn’t breathe so much sulfur smog
Sugar dances at the movies, coffee tells you on TV
and Sodium Nitrate & Nicotine Cholesterol
have nothing to do with Foreign policy.
Nature boy drifts into Central American oblivion
with Seminole Patchwork and Albert Einstein,
nobody thought heat rays would end the world.
September 25, 1983
They’re All Phantoms of My Imagining
I needed a young musician take off his pants sit down on the bed and sing me the blues
I needed a teacher could nail me to the Unborn
needed a stepmother’d accomplish my natural mother’s tears
a scared friend of fame wearing locks and T’fillin by the Wall of Tears
I needed a brother was gentle, suffered to protect me from anger
needed a nephew lost, left his rice in the refrigerator with a cold spoon
Comrade farmer cook with me & study Banjo Dharma
Needed Presidents mad so I could write the Nation sane
I needed a father a poet would die
Needed the great companion dark eyes wearied brow tender heart in the grave
needed an intelligent junkie rebuke my shallow thought with dirty wit
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