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Gregory Corso - BombGregory Corso - Bomb
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Budger of history   Brake of time   You   Bomb      Toy of universe   Grandest of all snatched sky   I cannot hate you        Do I hate the mischievous thunderbolt   the jawbone of an ass     The bumpy club of One Million B.C.   the mace   the flail    the axe   Catapult Da Vinci   tomahawk Cochise   flintlock Kidd   dagger Rathbone    Ah and the sad desparate gun of Verlaine   Pushkin   Dillinger   Bogart And hath not St. Michael a burning sword   St. George a lance   David a sling Bomb   you are as cruel as man makes you   and you`re no crueller than cancer  All Man hates you   they`d rather die by car-crash   lightning   drowning Falling off a roof   electric-chair  heart-attack   old age   old age   O Bomb     They`d rather die by anything but you   Death`s finger is free-lance  Not up to man whether you boom or not   Death has long since distributed its  categorical blue   I sing thee Bomb   Death`s extravagance   Death`s jubilee   Gem of Death`s supremest blue   The flyer will crash   his death will differ    with the climbor who`ll fall   to die by cobra is not to die by bad pork Some die by swamp   some by sea  and some by the bushy-haired man in the night   O there are deaths like witches of Arc   Scarey deaths like Boris Karloff    No-feeling deaths like birth-death   sadless deaths like old pain Bowery  Abandoned deaths   like Capital Punishment   stately deaths like senators   And unthinkable deaths like Harpo Marx   girls on Vogue covers   my own     I do not know just how horrible Bombdeath is   I can only imagine      Yet no other death I know has so laughable a preview   I scope      a city   New York City   streaming   starkeyed   subway shelter        Scores and scores   A fumble of humanity   High heels bend            Hats whelming away   Youth forgetting their combs          Ladies not knowing what to do   with their shopping bags            Unperturbed gum machines   Yet dangerous 3rd rail          Ritz Brothers   from the Bronx   caught in the A train                The smiling Schenley poster will always smile                   Impish death   Satyr Bomb   Bombdeath                     Turtles exploding over Istanbul                         The jaguar`s flying foot                        soon to sink in arctic snow                     Penguins plunged against the Sphinx                        The top of the Empire state                    arrowed in a broccoli field in Sicily                 Eiffel shaped like a C in Magnolia Gardens                       St. Sophia peeling over Sudan                     O athletic Death   Sportive Bomb                       the temples of ancient times                         their grand ruin ceased                      Electrons   Protons   Neutrons                         gathering Hersperean hair                    walking the dolorous gulf of Arcady                          joining marble helmsmen                       entering the final ampitheater                     with a hymnody feeling of all Troys                        heralding cypressean torches                         racing plumes and banners                 and yet knowing Homer with a step of grace                       Lo the visiting team of Present                           the home team of Past                       Lyre and tube together joined                     Hark the hotdog soda olive grape                      gala galaxy robed and uniformed                      commissary   O the happy stands                      Ethereal root and cheer and boo                     The billioned all-time attendance                          The Zeusian pandemonium                            Hermes racing Owens                          The Spitball of Buddha                            Christ striking out                           Luther stealing third                      Planeterium Death   Hosannah Bomb                     Gush the final rose   O Spring Bomb                     Come with thy gown of dynamite green                       unmenace Nature`s inviolate eye                         Before you the wimpled Past                   behind you the hallooing Future   O Bomb                        Bound in the grassy clarion air                         like the fox of the tally-ho                  thy field the universe thy hedge the geo                 Leap Bomb   bound Bomb   frolic zig and zag                The stars a swarm of bees in thy binging bag                      Stick angels on your jubilee feet                    wheels of rainlight on your bunky seat                     You are due and behold you are due                       and the heavens are with you                   hosanna incalescent glorious liaison                 BOMB O havoc antiphony molten cleft BOOM                    Bomb mark infinity a sudden furnace                 spread thy multitudinous encompassed Sweep                         set forth awful agenda              Carrion stars   charnel planets   carcass elements             Corpse the universe   tee-hee finger-in-the-mouth hop                       over its long long dead Nor                    From thy nimbled matted spastic eye                    exhaust deluges of celestial ghouls                      From thy appellational womb                   spew birth-gusts of of great worms                        Rip open your belly Bomb               from your belly outflock vulturic salutations               Battle forth your spangled hyena finger stumps                       along the brink of Paradise                         O Bomb   O final Pied Piper                both sun and firefly behind your shock waltz                          God abandoned mock-nude                 beneath His thin false-talc`s apocalypse                        He cannot hear thy flute`s                        happy-the-day profanations               He is spilled deaf into the Silencer`s warty ear                    His Kingdom an eternity of crude wax                      Clogged clarions untrumpet Him                        Sealed angels unsing Him                      A thunderless God   A dead God                       O Bomb   thy BOOM His tomb                 That I lean forward on a desk of science                  an astrologer dabbling in dragon prose               half-smart about wars   bombs   especially bombs              That I am unable to hate what is necessary to love                That I can`t exist in a world that consents            a child in a park   a man dying in an electric-chair                    That I am able to laugh at all things          all that I know and do not know   thus to conceal my pain              That I say I am a poet and therefore love all man           knowing my words to be the acquainted prophecy of all men                and my unwords no less an acquaintanceship                           That I am manifold                     a man pursuing the big lies of gold                      or a poet roaming in bright ashes                    or that which I imagine myself to be                a shark-toothed sleep   a man-eater of dreams                   I need not then be all-smart about bombs              Happily so   for if I felt bombs were caterpillars                   I`d doubt not they`d become butterflies                         There is a hell for bombs                      They`re there   I see them there                       They sit in bits and sing songs                    mostly German songs                      And two very long American songs                    and they wish there were more songs                   especially Russian and Chinese songs                  and some more very long American songs                    Poor little Bomb that`ll never be                       an Eskimo song   I love thee                        I want to put a lollipop                            in thy furcal mouth                     A wig of Goldilocks on thy baldy bean                  and have you skip with me Hansel and Gretel                        along the Hollywoodian screen                      O Bomb in which all lovely things                   moral and physical anxiously participate                O fairylike plucked from the                          grandest universe tree                      O piece of heaven which gives                     both mountain and anthill a sun                I am standing before your fantastic lily door                I bring you Midgardian roses   Arcadian musk                 Reputed cosmetics from the girls of heaven                   Welcome me   fear not thy opened door                     nor thy cold ghost`s grey memory                   nor the pimps of indefinite weather                       their cruel terrestial thaw                          Oppenheimer is seated                       in the dark pocket of Light                    Fermi is dry in Death`s Mozambique                         Einstein his mythmouth                 a barnacled wreath on the moon-squid`s head             Let me in   Bomb   rise from that pregnant-rat corner                nor fear the raised-broom nations of the world                           O Bomb I love you                 I want to kiss your clank   eat your boom                    You are a paean   an acme of scream                      a lyric hat of Mister Thunder                        O resound thy tanky knees                     BOOM   BOOM   BOOM   BOOM   BOOM                      BOOM ye skies and BOOM ye suns                    BOOM BOOM ye moons   ye stars BOOM                     nights ye BOOM   ye days ye BOOM                 BOOM BOOM ye winds   ye clouds ye rains                    go BANG ye lakes   ye oceans BING                     Barracuda BOOM and cougar BOOM                       Ubangi BOOM   orangutang                 BING BANG BONG BOOM   bee bear baboon                        ye BANG ye BONG ye BING                       the tail the fin the wing                 Yes   Yes   into our midst a bomb will fall                 Flowers will leap in joy their roots aching          Fields will kneel proud beneath the halleluyahs of the wind            Pinkbombs will blossom   Elkbombs will perk their ears           Ah many a bomb that day will awe the bird a gentle look                 Yet   not enough to say a bomb will fall                  or even contend celestial fire goes out                Know that the earth will madonna the Bomb         that in the hearts of men to come more bombs will be born            magisterial bombs wrapped in ermine   all beautiful               and they`ll sit plunk on earth`s grumpy empires                     fierce with moustaches of gold
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