Allen Ginsberg

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                                                              On the Conduct of the World 
                                                                   Seeking Beauty Against 
                                                                               Government

                               Is that the only way we can become like Indians, like Rhinoceri,
                               like Quartz Crystals, like organic farmers, like what we imagine
                               Adam & Eve to’ve been, caressing each other with trembling limbs
                             before the Snake of Revolutionary Sex wrapped itself round
                            The Tree of Knowledge? What would Roque Dalton joke about lately
                            teeth chattering like a machine gun as he debated mass tactics
                           with his Companeros? Necessary to kill the Yanquis with big bomb
                            Yes but don’t do it by yourself, better consult your mother
                        to get the Correct Line of Thought, if not consult Rimbaud once he got his leg cut 
                                                                                   off
                         or Lenin after his second stroke sending a message thru Mrs Krupskaya
                        to the rude Georgian, & just before his deathly fit when the Cheka aides
                                                                              outside
                       his door looked in coldly assuring him his affairs were in good hands no need to 
                                                            move - What sickness at the
                                                          pit of his stomach moved up to
                                                                              his brain?
                       What thought Khlebnikov on the hungry train exposing his stomach to the
                                                                                   sun?
                        Or Mayakovsky before the bullet hit his brain, what sharp propaganda for
                                                                                action
                        on the Bureaucratic Battlefield in the Ministry of Collective Agriculture in
                                                                             Ukraine?
                       What Slogan for Futurist architects or epic hymn for masses of Communist
                                                    Party Card holders in Futurity
                       on the conduct of the world seeking beauty against Government?