N B C S U P A P I N S L I F E - Allen Ginsberg.mp3

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[00:00.884]N B C B S U P A P I N S L I F E
[00:09.303]Time Mutual presents
[00:12.286]World’s Largest Camp Comedy :
[00:15.404]Magic In Vietnam —
[00:18.137]reality turned inside out
[00:19.835]changing its sex in the Mass Media
[00:22.053]for 30 days, TV den and bedroom farce
[00:26.171]Flashing pictures Senate Foreign Relations Committee room
[00:30.452]Generals faces flashing on and off screen
[00:33.236]mouthing language
[00:35.169]State Secretary speaking nothing but language
[00:38.554]McNamara declining to speak public language
[00:42.254]The President talking language,
[00:45.119]Senators reinterpreting language
[00:47.385]General Taylor Limited Objectives
[00:51.101]Owls from Pennsylvania
[00:53.587]Clark’s Face Open Ended
[00:57.147]Dove’s Apocalypse
[00:59.750]Morse’s hairy ears
[01:02.431]Stennis orating in Mississippi
[01:05.283]half billion chinamen crowding into the
[01:07.916]polling booth,
[01:09.132]Clean shaven Gen. Gavin’s image
[01:11.816]imagining Enclaves
[01:14.768]Tactical Bombing the magic formula for
[01:17.248]a silver haired Symington :
[01:20.382]Ancient Chinese apothegm :
[01:23.219]Old in vain.
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[01:27.165]Hawks swooping thru the newspapers
[01:29.082]talons visible
[01:30.932]wings outspread in the giant updraft of hot air
[01:34.933]loosing their dry screech in the skies
[01:37.199]over the Capitol
[01:39.314]Napalm and black clouds emerging in newsprint
[01:42.916]Flesh soft as a Kansas girl’s
[01:45.131]ripped open by metal explosion —
[01:47.899]three five zero zero         on the other side of the planet
[01:53.032]caught in barbed wire, fire ball
[01:56.132]bullet shock, bayonet electricity
[01:59.184]bomb blast terrific in skull & belly, shrapnelled
[02:03.498]throbbing meat
[02:05.381]While this American nation argues war :
[02:08.734]conflicting language, language
[02:10.909]proliferating in airwaves
[02:13.426]filling the farmhouse ear, filling
[02:15.642]the City Manager’s head in his oaken office
[02:18.810]the professor’s head in his bed at midnight
[02:22.193]the pupil’s head at the movies
[02:24.759]blond haired, his heart throbbing with desire
[02:28.677]for the girlish image bodied on the screen :
[02:32.259]or smoking cigarettes
[02:34.624]and watching Captain Kangaroo
[02:37.708]that fabled damned of nations
[02:40.573]prophecy come true —
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[02:46.024]Though the highway’s straight,
[02:48.508]dipping downward through low hills,
[02:51.174]rising narrow on the far horizon
[02:54.191]black cows browse in caked fields
[02:57.511]ponds in the hollows lie frozen,
[03:01.125]quietness.
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[03:03.841]Is this the land that started war on China?
[03:07.373]This be the soil that thought Cold War for decades?
[03:12.142]Are these nervous naked trees & farmhouses
[03:15.675]the vortex
[03:16.591]of oriental anxiety molecules
[03:19.622]that’ve imagined        American Foreign Policy
[03:23.022]and magick’d up paranoia in Peking
[03:26.222]and curtains of living blood
[03:28.440]surrounding far Saigon?
[03:31.572]Are these the towns where the language emerged
[03:34.557]from the mouths here
[03:36.555]that makes a Hell of riots in Dominica
[03:40.237]sustains the aging tyranny of Chiang in silent Taipeh city
[03:46.122]Paid for the lost French war in Algeria
[03:50.238]overthrew the Guatemalan polis in ’54
[03:53.887]maintaining United Fruit’s banana greed
[03:56.707]another thirteen years
[03:58.889]for the secret prestige of the Dulles family lawfirm?