Father Death Blues
Hey Father Death,
I'm flying
Hey poor man, you're all
Hey old daddy,
Hey Father Death,
I'm flying
Hey poor man, you're all
Hey old daddy,
Whom bomb
We bomb'd them
Whom bomb
We bomb'd them
In the foreground we see time and lifeswept in a racetoward the left hand side of the picturewhere shore meets shore
But that meeting placeisn't represented;it doesn't occur on the canvas
For the other side of the bayis Heaven and Eterni...
railroad yard in San Jose I wandered desolate in front of a tank factory and sat on a bench near the switchman's shack
A flower lay on the hay on the asphalt highway —the dread hay flower I thought—It had a brittle black stem and corolla of y...
Cool black night thru redwoodscars parked outside in shadebehind the gate, stars dim abovethe ravine, a fire burning by the sideporch and a few tired souls hunched overin black leather jackets
In the hugewooden house, a yellow chandelier at 3...
And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and lying policemen and the Capitalists proffer Napalm and money in green suitcases to the Naked, and the Communists create heavy industry but the heart is also heavy and the b...
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarke...
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy
Tail turned to red sunset on a juniper crown a lone magpie cawks
Mad at Oryoki in the shrine-room — Thistles blossomed late afternoon
Put on my shirt and took it off in the sun walking the path to lunch
A dandelion seed floats above...
In nineteen hundred
China was won by Mao
Chiang Kai Shek's army ran
They were waiting there in Thailand
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey,
B'nai Israel
But l want a big
St
Homage to Kenneth
If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty IranI'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in the jungle,
I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oi...