{"id":1794,"date":"2010-07-02T23:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T06:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/07\/roy_zimmerman_allen_ginsberg_h\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T23:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T06:41:02","slug":"roy_zimmerman_allen_ginsberg_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/roy_zimmerman_allen_ginsberg_h.html","title":{"rendered":"Roy Zimmerman & Allen Ginsberg: Happy Birthday America (It just might work)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Allen
\nGinsberg<\/a> –  from America<\/i><\/p>\n

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
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America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
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I can’t stand my own mind.
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America when will we end the human war?
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Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don’t feel good don’t bother me.
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I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.
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America when will you be angelic?
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When will you take off your clothes?
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When will you look at yourself through the grave?
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When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
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America why are your libraries full of tears?
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America when will you send your eggs to India?
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I’m sick of your insane demands.
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When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good
\nlooks?
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America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next
\nworld.
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Your machinery is too much for me.
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You made me want to be a saint…
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America stop pushing I know what I’m doing.
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America the plum blossoms are falling…
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the
\ncloset…<\/p>\n

Asia is rising against me.
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I haven’t got a chinaman’s chance.
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I’d better consider my national resources.
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My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of
\ngenitals
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an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour
\nand
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twentyfivethousand mental institutions.
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I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged
\nwho live in
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my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.
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I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to
\ngo.
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My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I’m a Catholic.\n<\/p>\n

America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his
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automobiles more so they’re all different sexes
\n…
America this is quite serious…
It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision
\nparts
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factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
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America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roy Zimmerman (Image below via) Allen Ginsberg –  from America America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.I don’t feel good don’t bother me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}