[New-Poetry] Happy Birthday Ginsberg

[David Bircumshaw]

yeah, I like David's poem too, rather more than I like Ginsberg's or the
character that comes across as 'Ginsberg'.

Best

Dave


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>
>
> > Wonderful, David!
>
> Yes, a good one.  A Ginsberg better than any Ginsberg.
>
> --Bob G.
>
> > On Jun 3, 2006, at 2:49 PM, David Graham wrote:
> >
> >> Ginsberg born this day in 1926.  Here's the poem I wrote after he
> >> died:
> >>
> >>
> >> Goodbye Allen Ginsberg
> >>
> >> Old truth-goof, garrulous
> >> and canny crow, finally
> >> you're at one with polluted skies,
> >> sidewalk grit, neon buzzing
> >> messages to the Absolute,
> >>
> >> all those clippings of your face
> >> candidly sweet, decently weary,
> >> all your archives and footnotes
> >> and tapes full of scat. . . .
> >>
> >> What use the FBI, CIA
> >> keeping tabs on your slant self?
> >> What did they ever learn
> >> you hadn't already published?
> >>
> >> You printed come cries, vanities
> >> and regrets, droopy-fleshed lust
> >> and despair hard as a curb.
> >> Farts of savvy delirium.
> >>
> >> Chanting your wet dreams
> >> as if they would dissolve
> >> the Pentagon, you bombed
> >> the White House with squads
> >> of paper airplanes, scribbled
> >> all over with holy jokes
> >>
> >> --to no avail, no avail,
> >> you big phony failure,
> >> you stand up comic singing off key
> >> in eternity's lounge, raking in
> >> prizes like Miss America, sprawling
> >> all over the anthologies at last.
> >>
> >> Yes, you were queer, start to finish
> >> in every way, jabbering stowaway
> >> on the flound'ring ship of State,
> >> crazy angel of the honorarium,
> >> philosopher goat.
> >>
> >> Goodbye to your smoldering ashes,
> >> goodbye to pages of yellow gibberish
> >> and their sudden shafts of pure sun
> >> warming the forest floor . . . .
> >>
> >>
> >> ==========================================
> >> David Graham
> >> grahamd at ripon.edu
> >> Home Page:
> >> http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/GrahamD/index.html
> >> Poetry Library:
> >> http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/GrahamD/poetrylib.html
> >> ==========================================
> >>
> >>
> >>
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