Howl Revisited
for Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds as
the stray dogs
of my generation,
wagging their fluffy tails,
howling apocalyptic
announcements in buses
and on subways trains,
in supermarkets and
colleges campuses-
barking about something
extremely important
like Kafka and busty blondes,
revealing the utter banality
of our ever collapsing
Western civilization,
reminiscent of some Goya
paintings, smudged with lipstick,
rouge, powders and mascara-
they were barking about
seasonal changes, orgasms,
and wars, presidential
elections, tampons and
brassieres,
caressing the pages with
full breasts, six pack bellies
and rising temperatures,
invoking revolutions,
erections and the first
amendment,
they were smoking Zen pipes
and snorting powdered
guacamole, mixing French
parlance with tea sipping
haiku moments,
they were starting arsons
and putting out forest fires,
they were saving the Amazon
and subverted the morale
of plugged up toilets
of our inner social fabric,
humping away at the foundations
of the sociopolitical structure,
because you knew, and we all
knew, as surely as the Pope
shits in the woods,
that the breakthrough
begins by embracing the animal,
by stripping away
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poem by Alexander Shaumyan (9 January 2010)
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