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!
