Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen (книги серии онлайн .TXT) 📗

          Children in back of a car

          with Bubblegum

a flight of birds out of a dry field like mosquitoes

“… several battalions of U.S. troops in a search and destroy operation in the Coastal plain near Bong Son, 300 mi. Northeast of Saigon. Thus far the fighting has been a series of small clashes. In a related action 25 miles to the South, Korean troops killed 35 Viet Cong near Coastal highway Number One.”

“For he’s oh so Good

and he’s oh so fine

and he’s oh so healthy

in his body and his mind”

The Kinks on car radio

In Riverside,

     a 1920s song—

          “It’s the only words I know / that you’ll

                         understand”

     For my uncle Max dead 5 years ago

          it’s settled—buried

under the blue mountain wall,

Veined with snow at the top

               clouds passing

                    icy remote heights

Palmtrees on valley floor

     stick up toothpick hairheads—

Toy automobiles piled crushed and mangled

               topped by a hanging crane,

     The planet hanging,

               the air hanging,

                    Trees hang their branches,

               A dirt truck hanging on the highway—

Spectacle of Afternoon,

     giant pipes glistening in the universe

   Magic that weighs tons and tons,

               Old bum with his rough

                    tattered pack hunched

          walking up the hill hanging

                    to Ukipah

          cloth cap pulled over his head

                         black fingernails.

          A wall, a wall, a Mesa Wall, There’s desert

          flat mountain shadows

               miles along the pale pink floor

                         —Indio in space.

The breath of spring, the breath of fear

          Mexican border …

                    The LSD cube—

                              silence.

There’s those Hellies again,

          over hiway, as over Mekong

                    belly lights blinking red

          prob’ly surveying the border—

          shotguns stickin’ out all over

               —Two birds swoop under car dashboard.

                    Purple Mist,

                      motor tire drone.

Sacrifice for Prosperity, says Johnson.

          Joshua Tree Monument

Blue dusk.

          Bomb China

     says Southern Senator Stennis—

Mobil’s neon Pegasus flying overhill.

Colorado River border,

     Two lemons an orange seized,

          Scaly Mites

     and the cube of acid smuggled into Arizona …

“It all comes from Crystal hill”—

        The whole countryside’s Quartzite hereabouts—

Huntley’s Perspective on the News

          Sukarno a Nut? A wildman?

               or potential friend?

     Brought to you by Mercury

               boasting “sweet

               success taste”—

They can go around saying things about people,

     and once their policy’s adopted it’ll rule a decade—

Somebody decided “he’s a nut!”

     official policy, re-echoed to 14 Million Readers of Time

as we drive along in the Bat-mobile thru Arizona—

Approaching Hope, dream maps unfolded

          Waves with larger & larger loops,

          Tree-posts flashing auto headlights

                                   hit my retina

                         I saw what it was

                              light saw light,

                                   a flash in the pan.

Eyes register, nerves send waves along to the brain

Finger touch is electric waves

                    carlights glare thru eyes—

Voice repeating itself,

     wavering over the microphones—

          Meditation passing Hope …

Horrific outskirts’ Eastern Traffic Sign,

          Turn backward…

                    Dull sleep on my eyes

*   *   *   *

Morning Phoenix Gazette, editorial January 27, ’66

          “No time for probe of CIA

          No Good Purpose would be served—

                    Why poke on the Nose?

          … Virtual epidemic of attacks,

Pacifists let Reds take over the world, rather than

                         Fighting Against Them—

     well meaning people … distasteful intelligence

     Sacrosanct… scuttle … demand an investigation …