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
MARC OLMSTED
Silver Hand (SFO-Halifax-NYC
roundtrip)
1
Preparing for a trip
I wait to meet Thom I. for dinner –
Mission zone, Valencia & 16th
sipping tea
hidden in the window
watching commuters
mix w/ petty crime-junk world
bohemia cheap realm
artists
elder smoking
Latinos chatting on the
bench outside acknowledging
beauty
whatever form of woman
& the white rasta mad man has a clotted braid
reaching blondish
squirrel pelt below his ass
as he now enters with big rumped brunette
to buy something what will it be?
Fresh apple
juice! A scone!
2
“The Wired Monk”
in Shambhala Kindgom (original name for Shangri-la of
legend)
a café in Halifax 5000 miles (?) 4 hours
ahead –
I’ve receive the oral transmission (lung) today the ritual feast (tsok) –
all hail Chogyam Trungpa disembodied Rigden King
of Halifax
(who established
meditation central HQ here)
with its old bricks European
its big San Francisco bridges
its cyberpagan
Burning Man tattooed hippie kids (3 universities)
international backpack
travelers expensive hotels
and lack of homeless
or visible police except middle of the
night
apprehending drunk driving
youngsters w/ a benign white van
& my new friend
Tibetan translator Larry M.
watches the same True
Blood cable TV HBO vampire show
as me in this faraway
arctica fairlyland elemental
stormcloud raw
3
Return to America NYC
return to genocide
and slavery karma,
return to war country
Mars country
return to the airport
standing predawn concrete doorway sidewalk stinking of urine
Return to kingdom where eyes don’t meet
acknowledgement means wanting
a cigarette a deal a handout a cocksuck a dope bust
having read w/ unsung
worker poet Andy Clausen Bowery Poetry Club
toughest audience ever
now returning home to what poet Clausen
calls
“toughest town in
America” Oakland, California
sitting in an airport
terminal
where my outloud laughter at
Sarah Palin
conservative nut on CNN widescreen
(comments on Obama
health care plan) draws stares –
horrified I watch an
Afghani insurgent blown up –
but the well-dressed mom turns only for
Elizabeth Hasselbeck celebrity’s new baby
cold America cruel America secret shadow
government America umbrella corporation Manchurian corporation International
Bank –
to not trust Obama is to admit the end
to consider Halifax move
to hunker down cut costs cut back
want to be a star? eyes
stolen heart stolen posing fatless airbrushed zombie
Queen of America
they’ve torn down the
stature of liberty
a large silver metal hand at the gate of
JFK
holding the latest
Japanese cellphone
that
even will
live your life
8/6 to 8/10/09
[Originally
published in NHS 2010, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs10/index.html.]