Collected Poems 1947-1997 - Ginsberg Allen. Страница 219
But I can’t get it up
too timid and shy
Growing old in my heaven
Singing blues in the sky
Nothing here to complain of
White clouds in the sun
Peace in my heart
Empty sky Everyone
But earth I look down on
Turns round misery
Green dollars fat
with the war industry
Mankind’s great delusions
Scrape sky with red rage
Build bombs out of Atoms
to blast out the words on this page
Majestical jailhouse
our Joy’s in the Cage
Hearts full of hatred
will outlast my old age
* * *
My mother has perished
my father’s long dead
I have a sweet brother
healed the pain in his head
I’m going to the Apple
to eat with my friends
While the radio chatters
what the President intends
Down there Mississippi
Minneapolis near
Farms and green comforts
of the Northern Hemisphere
While Earth’s hundred millions
Chew miserable clay
Old African kingdoms
Starve this century
I’ll read in the papers
more deaths in Iran
Jahweh rules Israel
Tanks in Afghanistan
Martial Law rules Gdansk
and the old Viet-Nam War
Murders Indians in Guatemala
and burns down El Salvador
London and Belfast
Los Angeles and Prague
Tel Aviv & Moscow
sit in their smog
Phnom Penh’s red ruin
was Washington’s pride
Hanoi hates Peking
where the God Mao has died
I’m alone in the sky
where there’s nothing to lose
The Sun’s not eternal
That’s why there’s the blues
Majestical jailhouse
our Joy’s in the Cage
Hearts full of hatred
will outlast my old age
* * *
Turn round in the sunset
over Manhattan isle
Newark was my birthplace
under the wing for a while
Green gastanks of Kearny
Smog brown in the sky
Seven million black men and white
live here and die
Come down over Harlem
red buildings stand still
Dusk light gleams their windows
wheels bound on the landfill
Sky streaked with jet streams
black clouds in the west
In the Lower East Side
I’ll go take my rest.
October 30, 1981
DO THE MEDITATION ROCK
Copyright © 1986 by May King Poetry Music Inc., Allen Ginsberg
Do the Meditation Rock*
Tune: I fought the Dharma, and the Dharma won
If you want to learn
I’ll tell you now
I’ll tell you how
it’s just that great
If you are an old
or a lama who lives
The first thing you do
is keep your spine
Sit yourself down
or sit in a chair
how to meditate
’cause it’s never too late
’cause I can’t wait
that it’s never too late
fraud like me
in Eternity
when you meditate
your backbone straight
on a pillow on the ground
if the ground isn’t there
Do the meditation Do the meditation
Learn a little Patience and Generosity
Follow your breath out
and sit there steady
Follow your breath right
follow it out
Follow your breath
to the thought of yr death
Follow your breath
whatever you think
open your eyes
& sit there wise