H e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n

JIM COHN

The President Had Already Been Lynched

The President had already been lynched

In a few million minds.

Nobody knew if the country would

Self-destruct in wasted splendor.

It’s all boiling down to

Certain spots in a courtyard

Where on winter days

The sun would shine.

30 January 2010

[Originally published in NHS 2010, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs10/index.html.]