... Growth rate trippers hallucinating Everglade real estate!
Steak swallowers zonked on Television!
Old ladies on Stockmarket habits - Old Wall Street paper
Money-pushers!
Central intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China lobby
copping poppies in Burma!
How long this Addict government support our oil-burner
matter-habit
shooting gasoline electric speed before the blue light blast
& eternal Police-roar Mankind's utter bust?
Robot airfields soulless Market electronic intelligence busi-
ness skyscraper streets
empty soul'd, exploding ...
This is a testimony to how far ahead the Ginz was. I'd like to learn a little from him about how to criticize and surrender, let's say in one breath. It's an achievement to both be critical and to accept a degree of powerlessness. Where do we seek to make the first changes? In ourselves I believe and allow these changes to ripple outwards, and maybe come into contact with others.
ReplyDeletePaulie I Scrod
I think Ginz might agree with you, that a single person cannot change humankind's rapacious and insatiable gorging at the planetary trough; but one person can change oneself. The "ripple outwards" effect might be all we have as individuals.
ReplyDeleteGinsberg was a great observer - of external phenomena and of how, internally, his brain and heart processed what he saw. His poetry is a record of that, of truth-telling his observations and not being afraid of being honest. "Candor ends paranoia" he liked to quote.
The excerpt from "Fall of America" is very much a record of his human observation that Friday the 13th, 1970. Notice how there is no overt declaratory denunciation, no shrill judgement or condemnation. He lets the particulars of his eye-noticing take care of that; one has only to read such lines to know exactly how he feels about what he describes.