what a repository

[adamplus]

America Ginsberg had you all wrong
way off base
(what a hack)

Ginsberg, the Commies had it coming
(nothing a good ol' American
ass-kicking couldn't fix)
the textbooks say so

Sacco was strapped to the electric chair
from birth, America
(Vanzetti too)

America, my legless uncle
says Communism was doomed
from the get-go
("what a load of shit!")

America, my sonless aunt
says those Iraqis are soulless
(they probably had it coming too)

five dollars and sixteen cents, April 10, 2006
America, won't get me enough gasoline
to drive to the bottom of the Atlantic

I'm trying to do you justice
America, Ginsberg
I'm trying to do you justice

But there's something
about capitalism
and I can see their eyes

marching, marching
down the Mag mile
and Belmont
with bulging bags and rubber sole shoes

pockets full of jingling tinkling unused shells
itching, craving
to be burned into the flesh
of some Arab
some Kraut
some Chinaman
some Russkie
some

-no,
keys,
to cars or houses,
just keys
and sixteen cents

Ginsberg, Russia
doesn't want anything to do with Chicago
and I know why