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Plutonian Ode

What new element before us unborn in nature?

Is there        a new thing under the Sun?

At last inquisitive Whitman a modern epic, detonative,        Scientific

First penned unmindful by Doctor Seaborg with poison-        ous hand, named for Death's planet through the        sea beyond Uranuswhose chthonic ore fathers this magma-teared Lord of        Hades,

Sire of avenging Furies, billionaire Hell-        King worshipped oncewith black sheep throats cut, priests's face averted from        underground mysteries in single temple at Eleusis,

Spring-green Persephone nuptialed to his inevitable        Shade,

Demeter mother of asphodel weeping dew,her daughter stored in salty caverns under white snow,        black hail, grey winter rain or Polar ice, immemor-        able seasons

Fish flew in Heaven, before a Ram died by the starry        bush, before the Bull stamped sky and earthor Twins inscribed their memories in clay or Crab'd        floodwashed memory from the skull, or Lion sniffed the        lilac breeze in Eden—Before the Great Year began turning its twelve signs,        ere constellations wheeled for twenty-four thousand        sunny yearsslowly round their axis in Sagittarius, one hundred        sixty-seven thousand times returning to this

Radioactive Nemesis were you there at the beginning        black dumb tongueless unsmelling blast of Disil-        lusion?

I manifest your Baptismal Word after four billion yearsI guess your birthday in Earthling Night,

I salute your        dreadful presence last majestic as the Gods,

Sabaot,

Jehova,

Astapheus,

Adonaeus,

Elohim,

Iao,        Ialdabaoth,

Aeon from Aeon born ignorant in an        Abyss of Light,

Sophia's reflections glittering thoughtful galaxies, whirl-        pools of starspume silver-thin as hairs of Einstein!

Father Whitman I celebrate a matter that renders Self        oblivion!

Grand Subject that annihilates inky hands & pages'        prayers, old orators' inspired Immortalities,

I begin your chant, openmouthed exhaling into spacious        sky over silent mills at Hanford,

Savannah River,        Rocky Flats,

Pantex,

Burlington,

AlbuquerqueI yell thru Washington,

South Carolina,

Colorado,        Texas,

Iowa,

New Mexico,

Where nuclear reactors create a new Thing under the        Sun, where Rockwell war-plants fabricate this death        stuff trigger in nitrogen baths,

Hanger-Silas Mason assembles the terrified weapon        secret by ten thousands, & where Manzano Moun-        tain boasts to storeits dreadful decay through two hundred forty millenia        while our Galaxy spirals around its nebulous core.

I enter your secret places with my mind,

I speak with        your presence,

I roar your Lion Roar with mortal        mouth.

One microgram inspired to one lung, ten pounds of        heavy metal dust adrift slow motion over grey        Alpsthe breadth of the planet, how long before your radiance        speeds blight and death to sentient beings?

Enter my body or not I carol my spirit inside you,        Unnaproachable Weight,

O heavy heavy Element awakened I vocalize your con-        sciousness to six worldsI chant your absolute Vanity.  Yeah monster of Anger        birthed in fear O

Ignorant matter ever created unnatural to Earth!

Delusion        of metal empires!

Destroyer of lying Scientists!

Devourer of covetous        Generals,

Incinerator of Armies & Melter of Wars!

Judgement of judgements,

Divine Wind over vengeful        nations,

Molester of Presidents,

Death-Scandal of        Capital politics!

Ah civilizations stupidly indus-        trious!

Canker-Hex on multitudes learned or illiterate!

Manu-        factured Spectre of human reason!

O solidified        imago of practitioner in Black ArtsI dare your reality,

I challenge your very being!

I        publish your cause and effect!

I turn the wheel of Mind on your three hundred tons!        Your name enters mankind's ear!

I embody your        ultimate powers!

My oratory advances on your vaunted Mystery!

This        breath dispels your braggart fears!

I sing your        form at lastbehind your concrete & iron walls inside your fortress        of rubber & translucent silicon shields in filtered        cabinets and baths of lathe oil,

My voice resounds through robot glove boxes & ignot        cans and echoes in electric vaults inert of atmo-        sphere,

I enter with spirit out loud into your fuel rod drums        underground on soundless thrones and beds of        leadO density!

This weightless anthem trumpets transcendent        through hidden chambers and breaks through        iron doors into the Infernal Room!

Over your dreadful vibration this measured harmony                floats audible, these jubilant tones are honey and        milk and wine-sweet

Poured on the stone black floor, these syllables are        barley groats I scatter on the Reactor's core,

I call your name with hollow vowels,

I psalm your Fate        close by, my breath near deathless ever at your        sideto Spell your destiny,

I set this verse prophetic on your        mausoleum walls to seal you up Eternally with        Diamond Truth!  O doomed Plutonium.

The Bar surveys Plutonian history from midnight        lit with Mercury Vapor streetlamps till in dawn's        early lighthe contemplates a tranquil politic spaced out between        Nations' thought-forms proliferating bureaucratic& horrific arm'd,

Satanic industries projected sudden        with Five Hundred Billion Dollar Strengtharound the world same time this text is set in Boulder,        Colorado before front range of Rocky Mountainstwelve miles north of Rocky Flats Nuclear Facility in        United States of North America,

Western Hemi-        sphereof planet Earth six months and fourteen days around        our Solar System in a Spiral Galaxythe local year after Dominion of the last God nineteen        hundred seventy

Completed as yellow hazed dawn clouds brighten East,        Denver city white

Blue sky transparent rising empty deep & spacious to a        morning star high over the balcony above some autos sat with wheels to curb downhill        from Flatiron's jagged pine ridge,sunlit mountain meadows sloped to rust-red sandstone        cliffs above brick townhouse roofsas sparrows waked whistling through Marine Street's        summer green leafed trees.

II                        This ode to you O Poets and Orators to come, you        father Whitman as I join your side, you Congress        and American people,you present meditators, spiritual friends & teachers,        you O Master of the Diamond Arts,

Take this wheel of syllables in hand, these vowels and        consonants to breath's endtake this inhalation of black poison to your heart, breath        out this blessing from your breast on our creation forests cities oceans deserts rocky flats and mountains        in the Ten Directions pacify with exhalation,enrich this Plutonian Ode to explode its empty thunder        through earthen

Magnetize this howl with heartless compassion, destroy        this mountain of Plutonium with ordinary mind        and body speech,thus empower this Mind-guard spirit gone out, gone        out, gone beyond, gone beyond me,

Wake space,        so Ah!

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began …

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