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          Drop the Bomb on Niggers!

               drop Fire on the gook China

                    Frankenstein Dragon

          waving its tail over Bayonne’s domed Aluminum oil reservoir!

I’ll haunt these States all year

      gazing bleakly out train windows, blue airfield

          red TV network on evening plains,

      decoding radar Provincial editorial paper message,

          deciphering Iron Pipe laborers’ curses as

               clanging hammers they raise steamshovel claws

          over Puerto Rican agony lawyers’ screams in slums.

October 11, 1966

Autumn Gold: New England Fall

Auto Poetry to Hanover, New Hampshire

Coughing in the Morning

      Waking with a steam beast, city destroyed

      Pile drivers pounding down in rubble,

      Red smokestacks pouring chemical

               into Manhattan’s Nostrils …

                         “All Aboard”

      Rust colored cliffs bulking over superhighway

                         to New Haven,

      Rouged with Autumny leaves, october smoke,

          country liquor bells on the Radio—

Eat Meat and your a beast

      Smoke Nicotine & your meat’ll multiply

          with tiny monsters of cancer,

Make Money & yr mind be lost in a million green papers,

      —Smell burning rubber by the steamshovel—

Mammals with planetary vision & long noses,

               riding a green small Volkswagen up three lane

                                   concrete road

                                        past the graveyard

      dotted w/tiny american flags waved in breeze,

                              Washington Avenue:

Sampans battling in waters off Mekong Delta

      Cuban politicians in Moscow, analyzing China—

Yellow leaves in the wood,

          Millions of redness,

               gray skies over sandstone

                    outcroppings along the road—

cows by yellow corn,

          wheel-whine on granite,

               white houseroofs, Connecticut woods

                    hanging under clouds—

Autumn again, you wouldn’t know in the city

Gotta come out in a car see the birds

               flock by the yellow bush—

In Autumn, in autumn, this part of the planet’s

               famous for red leaves—

Difficult for Man on earth to ’scape the snares of delusion—

      All wrong, the thought process screamed at

                         from Infancy,

The Self built with myriad thoughts

      from football to I Am That I Am,

Difficult to stop breathing factory smoke,

Difficult to step out of clothes,

          hard to forget the green parka—

Trees scream & drop

               bright Leaves,

Yea Trees scream & drop bright leaves,

Difficult to get out of bed in the morning

                    in the slums—

Even sex happiness a long drawn-out scheme

                    To keep the mind moving—

Big gray truck rolling down highway

                    to unload wares—

Bony white branches of birch relieved of their burden

—overpass, overpass, overpass

      crossing the road, more traffic

          between the cities,

               More sex carried near and far—

          Blinking tail lights

      To the Veterans hospital where we can all collapse,

Forget Pleasure and Ambition,

      be tranquil and let leaves

          blush, turned on

by the lightningbolt doctrine that rings

                              telephones

      interrupting my pleasurable humiliating dream

                    in the locker room

                              last nite?—

Weeping Willow, what’s your catastrophe?

      Red Red oak, oh, what’s your worry?

Hairy Mammal whaddya want,

               What more than a little graveyard

                    near the lake by airport road,

Electric towers marching to Hartford,

      Buildingtops spiked in sky,

      asphalt factory cloverleafs spread over meadows

Smoke thru wires, Connecticut River concrete wall’d

      past city central gastanks, glass boat bldgs,

          downtown, ten blocks square,

North, North on the highway, soon outa town,

                         green fields.

The body’s a big beast,

      The mind gets confused:

          I thought I was my body the last 4 years,

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