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Crossing Nation

Under silver wing    San Francisco's towers sprouting                thru thin gas clouds,    Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure        Berkeley hills pine-covered below—Dr Leary in his brown house scribing Independence                                             Declaration                  typewriter at window         silver panorama in natural eyeball—Sacramento valley rivercourse's Chinese        dragonflames licking green flats north-hazed    State Capitol metallic rubble, dry checkered fields           to Sierras- past Reno,

Pyramid Lake's           blue Altar, pure water in Nevada sands'                      brown wasteland scratched by tires          Jerry Rubin arrested!  Beaten, jailed,                 coccyx broken—Leary out of action—"a public menace…        persons of tender years…immature              judgement…pyschiatric examination…"i.e.

Shut up or Else   Loonybin or

Leroi on bum gun rap, $7,000         lawyer fees, years'

CK

TY headlined temporary,

Joan Baez'       paramour husband Dave Harris to

Dylan silent on politics, & safe—         having a baby, a man—Cleaver shot at, jail'd, maddened, parole revoked,

Vietnam War flesh-heap grows higher,         blood splashing down the mountains of bodies                 on to Cholon's sidewalks—Blond boys in airplane seats fed technicolor        Murderers advance w/ Death-chords    Earplugs in, steak on plastic                   served—Eyes up to the Image—What do I have to lose if America falls?    my body? my neck? my personality?

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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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