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

ANNE WALDMAN

Cittipatti Blues

U.S. Arsenal has over 20,000 nuclear weapons today

US Arsenal has over 20,000 nuclear weapons today

It fires them up just to keep phantom enemy away

Enemy enemy where do you come from

Enemy enemy where do you come from

Are you just the hallucination

on the other side everyone’s pointed (cocksure) gun

This gun is bigger than you could ever dream

O gun is deadlier than you could ever scheme

It’s nuclear warhead trigger makes all the babies scream

Singing low down clinical depression anti nuclear ballistic

missile blues

Singing low down marrow sick hag-mother powered blues

Want radiation to end

We all put on our dancing shoes

We’ve been fast asleep naive doped up citizens all

We’ve been fast asleep or staring at the wall

While Pentagon mindset raves on

Got to get its money fill

Can’t find the undaunted courage anywhere of a nuclear free

virgin mind

Can’t find the courage anywhere of a nuclear free virgin mind

Everybody’s got so worldly

Want to blow it up leave this world behind

Planet’s got aids O sing it to the skies

Plantet’s sick with aids O howl it to the skies

How to cure the patient before the patient dies

B-61, B-83, W-80-1 advanced cruise

W-80-0 Tomahawk, W-88 Trident II

Can’t get my mind off these deadly missile blues

W-61 Interim Earth penetrator Warhead

what business you got here

W-61 Interim Earth Penetrator Warhead

what business you got here

Gonna travel underground turn a bunker to a funeral pyre

Green Bee, Sky Horse are missiles of Taiwan

Condor II got S. America on the run

Israel’s 3 Jericho’s makes the walls come tumbling down

Wrathful mama sing those wrath from hell realm blues

Come up from your boneyard shake those rattling shoes

Cittipatti dancing on the grave of all those bombing crews

A-6 E Intruder, B-52 Stratofortress, Tomcat, Thunderbolt too

F-15 Eagle, f-111 Aardvar, F-4G Wild Weasel you’re making

me so blue

E-2C Hawkeye, AH-64 Apache, Chinook, Sea Cobra, Flacon

what a stew

Alchemy alchemy O what ignorance wrought mankind

Transmuting gold to poison, it’s all begins with mind

Send plutonium back to the alembic purify the times

A woman gets high on her mountaintop sings anti-missile

put down blues

She can’t keep her tongue from nagging, sing low down

anti-nuclear hag wrought blues

But too late for that reversal

Just keep dancing as the cancer brews

Mama mama wrathful mama blues

Come up from the boneyard shake those rattling shoes

Cittipatti dancing on the graves of all us ignorant fools

[Originally published in NHS 1992, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs92/index.html#12.]