Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen. Страница 170

Dharma Death, your mind is new

Sangha Death, we’ll work it through

Suffering is what was born

Ignorance made me forlorn

Tearful truths I cannot scorn

Father Breath once more farewell

Birth you gave was no thing ill

My heart is still, as time will tell.

July 8, 1976 (Over Lake Michigan)

VI

Near the Scrap Yard my Father’ll be Buried

Near Newark Airport my father’ll be

Under a Winston Cigarette sign buried

On Exit 14 Turnpike NJ South

Through the tollgate Service Road 1 my father buried

Past Merchants Refrigerating concrete on the cattailed marshes

past the Budweiser Anheuser-Busch brick brewery

in B’Nai Israel Cemetery behind a green painted iron fence

where there used to be a paint factory and farms

where Pennick makes chemicals now

under the Penn Central power Station

transformers & wires, at the borderline

between Elizabeth and Newark, next to Aunt Rose

Gaidemack, near Uncle Harry Meltzer

one grave over from Abe’s wife Anna my father’ll be buried.

July 9, 1976

VII

What’s to be done about Death?

Nothing, nothing

Stop going to school No. 6 Paterson, N.J., in 1937?

Freeze time tonight, with a headache, at quarter to 2 A.M.?

Not go to Father’s funeral tomorrow morn?

Not go back to Naropa teach Buddhist poetics all summer?

Not be buried in the cemetery near Newark Airport some day?

Paterson, July 11, 1976

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