Under silver wing
       San Francisco's towers sprouting
                           thru thin gas clouds,
       Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure
                Berkeley hills pine-covered below—
Dr Leary in his brown house scribing Independence
Declaration
                            typewriter at window
                 silver panorama in natural eyeball—

Sacramento valley rivercourse's Chinese 
                 dragonflames licking green flats north-hazed
State Capitol metallic rubble, dry checkered fields
                 to Sierras- past Reno, Pyramid Lake's 
                 blue Altar, pure water in Nevada sands' 
                          brown wasteland scratched by tires

Jerry Rubin arrested! Beaten, jailed,
                      coccyx broken—
Leary out of action--"a public menace...
           persons of tender years...immature
                    judgement...pyschiatric examination..."
i.e. Shut up or Else Loonybin or Slam

Leroi on bum gun rap, $7,000
                 lawyer fees, years' negotiations--
SPOCK GUILTY headlined temporary, Joan Baez'
                 paramour husband Dave Harris to Gaol
Dylan silent on politics, & safe—
                 having a baby, a man—
Cleaver shot at, jail'd, maddened, parole revoked,
Vietnam War flesh-heap grows higher,
                 blood splashing down the mountains of bodies
                               on to Cholon's sidewalks—
Blond boys in airplane seats fed technicolor
                 Murderers advance w/ Death-chord
                             thru photo basement,
         Earplugs in, steak on plastic
                  served—Eyes up to the Image—
What do I have to lose if America falls?
          my body? my neck? my personality?