Sightseers in tourist buses breathe fresh foggy air on Harold Norse & Hirschman Peaks—oldies but goldies
Ken Kesey’s name makes Bayshore famous as you barrel up past Brother Everson Memorial Stadium
Whalen Bridge sits meditating all the way to Oakland
Snyder Bridge connects the East-West Gate between S.F & Marin
Commuters crowd exhausted into the Neal Cassady R.R. Station on Corso
Czeslaw Milosz Street signs shine bright on Van Ness
Poet Jack Micheline gets Tenderloin, Philip Lamantia Tower crowns Telegraph Hill
where international surrealist tourists climb to see the view—
& I’ll take Alcatraz (to return to Native Americans along with Treasure Island)
April 21, 1994
Newt Gingrich Declares War on “McGovernik Counterculture”
Does that mean war on every boy with more than one earring on the same ear?
against every girl with a belly button ring? What about nose piercing? a diamond in right nostril?
Does that mean more plainclothesmen high on LSD at Dead concerts?
What about MTV—no more Michael Jackson, no Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues? Yoko & John no more Give Peace a Chance
Will there be laws against Punk, Generation X, the Voidoids, Slackers, Grunge?
Blues, Jazz, Bebop, Rocknroll? Where did it get countercultural?
What about Elvis’ Pelvis? Sonic Youth dumbed, Cobain’s screams banished from Nirvana?
No more grass on college campuses, Mushrooms stomped to death by the Elephant Party?
What about African-Americans? That’s a terrific Counterculture, & what about the Yellow Peril, Chinese restaurants? New Age Cooking? is Japanese Sushi too much Zen?
Sitting meditation, that be frowned satanic in Congress? Tai Chi, Tai Kwando, Karate, Martial Arts? Ballet? Opera, La Bohème?
Don’t mention us cocksuckers?! Is eating pussy countercultural?
Sappho, Socrates, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Proust in or out the canon?
J. E. Hoover’s name wiped off FBI granite in the Capital?
Poetry slams, is poetry countercultural, like a Third Party?
Is ecology pro or counter culture? Astronomy determining the Universe’s age & size?
Long hair, relativity, is Einstein countercultural?
January 1995
Pastel Sentences (Selections)
Mice ate at the big red heart in her breast, she was distracted in love.
Bowed down by the weight of nebulae he crouches underneath the hill.
A bat that’s bigger than your ear watches you sleep while you dream him there.
A round blue eye woke red lipped ’neath this century’s gigantic lightbulb.
Lantern-jawed Bismarck dreams a rich red rose blossoms thorn-stemmed through his skull.
In an oval blue womb a full-grown girl curled up eyes closed dreams her birth.
Big little people do yab yum in their ten petal’d yellow daisy.
Long hand over left eye Mother Sudan sees big bellied kids’ thin ribs.
In midst of coition a blood-red worm spurts out his heaving rib-cage.
The one eyed moon-whale watches you weep, drifting brown seas in a pale boat.
Thirty Kingdoms’ keys chainmailed down his chest, the Pope dreams he’s St. Peter.
Jeannie Duval’s cheek tickled by a Paris fly, 1852.
Puff a cigarette between skullfleshed lips, smoke gets in your empty eyes.
Sphincter-wound in his chest, he kneels and lifts both hands in surprise to pray.
All mixed up breasts feet genitals nipples & hands, both fall into sleep.
Adam contemplates his navel covered with a bush of jealous hearts.
Body spread open, black legs held down, she eats his ice cream—white sex-tongue.
One centaur palm raised thru earth-crust lifts a red live dog barking at stars.
Her dog licks the live red heart of th’ African lady curled up in bed.
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
Hands hold her ass tight with joy to lick & eat the blue star ’twixt her thighs.
Small pink-winged Lady-Heart hovers, rose-cunt legs spread nigh his stiff black dick.
Chic shoes rest in a black rose vortex of sociable fashion money.
She poses self-confident, blue sky & clouds borne in her oval womb.
Lady Buddha sleeps on blue air in a green leaf, knees raised spread naked.
Repose open-eyed on starry blue pillows under a star-roofed sky.
The black guy steps in the shade, glancing back at the sunlit boy he screwed.
Legs behind neck, arms hung down, Yogi’s solar anal navel burns red.
Blowing bubbles in blue sky he squats on his own blue bubble planet.
Star, bird, cane & big thigh bones, the ghost baby dreams life beyond the womb.
Regarding their long thick tails, blue demons wrestle with golden scissors.
He steps on his own breast lying in bed with red half hard-on.
Lady snails delicately climb naked thighs to stir his genitals.
Left forefinger probed into his own left hand proves a Doubting Thomas.
They exchange glances, a bee shadows her tail, a rose grows on his hip.
William Burroughs’ skeleton twists a towel, he’s got the bloody rag on.
The rose-girl kneels weighed down, iron tanks on shoulder, coccyx, calves & footsoles.
Horse stands on horse upon horse, lie back on top & take your forty winks.
He dives from naked sky past the sun’s nimbus into space-blue ocean.
Curtains part on a nail and its shadow, Samsara’s drama Act I.
The red lip’d fat billionaire appeals you try out his wee twat or dick.
Arms to neck, his tit, her belly, prong-twat, the President and his wife.
Pale green headless phantoms upside-down dipsy-doodle with thin hard-ons.
Lady Day bows her neck under a pyramid of oily black rocks.
Beneath breast-eyed wasp-beaks the pink rose opens, better get in there quick!
Inside her red womb the hermaphrodite fetus closes a third eye.
Wiping blood-black tears from hard labor, try holding up your big sad head.
Jealousy! Jealousy! Chin in hand he ponders the Unfaithful Muse.
Young Don Juan bravely displays his girlish red-sexed lips and eyeshadow.
Caught in the burning house of my brown body I fainted openeyed.
Big phallus, black womb lined with reddish flesh, look at the monkey we birthed.
One bird pecks her double’s breast on a ghost-white lingam’s unblinking head.
She flies down thousands of stone steps for years, aged climbs them all back up.
for Francesco Clemente
Château Chenonceau, June 24, 1995
Naropa Institute, July 5, 1995
Lawrence, Kansas, July 22, 1995
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