revolving black disks
“If it weren’t for you Mr Jukebox with yr aluminum belly roaring & thirty teeth eating diry drx.
yr eyes starred round the world, purple diamonds & white brain revolving black disks
in every bar from Yokamama to Pyraeus winking & beaming Saturday Nite
what silence harbor Sabbath dark instead of boys screaming and dancing wherever I go’”
—Allen Ginsberg, Seabattle of Salamis Took Place Off Perama, from Planet News, 1961–1967.
observe Minerva nerveless in Nirvana
“Oh say can you see in the dark you
observe Minerva nerveless in Nirvana because
Zeus rides reindeer thru Bethlehem’s blue sky.
It’s Buddha sits in Mary’s belly waving Kuan
Yin’s white hand at the Yang-tze that Mao sees,
tonge of Kali licking Krishna’s soft blue lips.”
—Allen Ginsberg, Holy Ghost on the Nod over the Body of Bliss, from Planet News, 1961–1967.
the Sun the Sun the Sun
“And the Sun the Sun the
Sun my visible father
making my body visible
thru my eyes!”
—Allen Ginsberg, The Change: Kyoto-Tokyo Express, from Planet News, 1961–1967.