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
THOMAS R.
PETERS, Jr.
Delirium
after Arthur
Rimbaud
15 minutes ‘til the matinee, my sweet
the summer of love
revisited
my beer
evaporates in the sun
as we stare at
the dirty hippies
The Bass dance in the vast sunlight
burning like Hesperus
Yesterday’s agitants
in shirts of cotton
looking like “The
Carpenters”
we dance silently
as pudding
as they slaughter
the lamb
on the hill
for the fifth time
O, we say goodbye little charmers
subjects of Babylon
Venus would quit in an instant
at the site of
these lame children
maybe if it rained
hamburgers
these gypsies would
leave us in peace
to attend to our
afternoon swim.
[Originally published in NHS 2005, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs05/thomas_r_peters_jr.html.]