Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen (книги серии онлайн .TXT) 📗
all you could ask
as if pure space
gave you a place
in Eternity—
To see the City
Stand all day
Shine all night
Bright starlight
streaming the height
Watery lawn
misty at dawn
warmed by the sun
Bathed in the moon
green grasses of June
80 times only
Don’t be lonely
Roses are live
Cockroaches thrive
in plastic garbage
maggots salvage
your dead meat
Horses eat
golden Hay
in golden day
Young kids jump
in the City dump
Take the lump
in your throat
and sing out
yr holy note
of heart’s delight
in living light
Day & Night
Sincerity
is the key
to Bliss in this
Eternity
April 5, 1985
Cadillac Squawk
Sitting on the twelfth floor Gomden I heard a wild siren in the garment district
Heard dog scream at dog on park avenue
my head rumbled the Bronx 242’d street Lexington Avenue Express
lonesome sparrows chirped weathered coppergreen cornice 1860
Footstep crash, pocket change jangled the shrine room’s polished floor
traffic waves rushed the shore 1985
Adolf Hitler’s voice in the taxi horn
squeak soprano steely cheep Chevrolet brakeshafts
subway breath rising to Empire State Observation Roof
iron doors slam refrigerators shut
bones creak in my knees’ antechambers
Heard the long Cadillac horn squawk up sidestreet brick buildingsides
elevators ascended and descended a thousand skyscrapers
wheels within wheels rubber and steel revolve on asphalt corridors
Exhaust puffs out monoxide Broadway Manhattan
Heard the sky shut up
Heard conversation in the trees in leafy Bronx
Heard Africa sigh
Asia turned over in its sleepy bunk
blood ran down rocks in South America
Heard Central America squeeze its ribs through iron gates
the Middle East rumbled plates & spoons in wartime bomb rubble
Polynesians danced with bacteria
Heard Japonesia eat with chopsticks chewing rice & peapods
Heard Australia rattle song sticks singing in Simpson Desert at the end of the world
New York Dharmadatu, June 16, 1985, 3:33 P.M.
Things I Don’t Know
Dawn, a mastiff howls on the porch across the street behind the For Sale signed tree
Chatter Chirp Chirp Chatter Chirp Chir Chir Chic Chir chance birdie twitters in a maple tree branch, Twirp!
I wake, what bird’s that, what kind of dog moans so?
Is that a maple or an oak, on Mapleton Street? What flowers weeds & ferns, those in the backyard? What car goes by awhoosh? A Pontiac, swash up the street,
A Chevy, Ford, a Pinto, a Grammarian, a 4 wheel drive GM?
What star I saw last night when clouds lifted & Orion’s belt
Glittered gold on blue? or was that amber on azure? As my eye
followed his arrow past the North Star thru the void, was that a tiny galaxy shimmering?
Where’s Sagittarius, which way is the black hole at center of the Spiral Nebula?
Where’s Sahel where a million children starve? Where’s Libya where Wilson of the CIA trained terrorists?
How many times this century’d the Marines land on Nicaragua’s dirty flag?
Who killed Roque Dalton? What’s the size of U.S. national Debt?
& how much interest we pay each year till the Eighties end?
Now the bird’s quiet & the dog bark’s down, what’s differential calculus? How do you fix electric socket wires?
I used to know the names of all the minerals. I do remember Pectolite gave you like asbestos splinters.
How do people overcome panic driving cars? Are bird bones hollow? didn’t I once know the look of grackle & scarlet tanager?
Cirrus or cumulus, what cloud produces thunder, lightning, rain?
What makes electricity in a battery? How does my wind charger friction become electric?
When water pours into hydraulic ram, what makes it squirt uphill when the valve closes in the Pressure Chamber? Is that it? Something like that?
What’re the 12 pix in Conditioned Co-existent Emergence’s Chain?
Blind man, potter, monkey tree, boat world, house with seven windows, what comes next before the man with arrow in his eye?
What about banks? What’s common stock & preferred? What’s a futures?
How do you hang a door, frame a window? Hold a light chainsaw?
How fix a broken leg? Ease a heart attack, deliver a baby? Breathe in the mouth of a man dying at oceanside?
What kind of government ever worked? Who wrote English Choriambics?
This isn’t Trivia (how play that?) this is my life, I can’t remember
the name of the lawyer my fellow student, friends with me in college 40 years ago—
How make a living, if I couldn’t write poetry?
Would I know how to plant peas, tie up tomato stalks?
July 21, 1985
*Buddhist Samatha-Vipassana Sitting Practice of Meditation
Notes
The following notes to the poems in White Shroud originally appeared in Selected Poems 1947–1995. (HarperCollins Publishers, 1996). More exten sive notes to this section can be found online at www.allenginsberg.org.
Homage Vajracarya
850 Ven. Chogyam Trungpa, Vajracarya’s Shambhala Arts included mind training with Archery (Kyudo), Calligraphy, Tea Ceremony, etc.
Why I Meditate
851 MIRROR STREET: Dadaist original Cabaret Voltaire was on Zurich’s Spiegelgasse Strasse.
851 RUTHERFORD: William Carlos Williams. Manhattan: Charles Reznikoff.
851 CHICAGO’S TEARGAS SKIES: 1968 Democratic convention police riot.
851 UNBORN: Buddhist metaphor, universe & consciousness are “unborn,” i.e. not traceable back to any ultimate birthplace, source, cause.
851 ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITAN: Aesopean Stalinist word for Jew.
Do the Meditation Rock
863 Buddhist Samatha-Vipassana Sitting Practice of Meditation instructions according to the Ven. Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. See his Meditation in Action (Boston: Shambhala Press, 1991).
863 UNCLE DON: 1930s U.S. radio father-figure tale-teller.
Arguments
885 PARAQUAT: Agricultural poison dust sprayed by U.S. on Sonora, Mexico, cannabis fields.
