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

Train Ride (A woman mistress of measure…)

for Mike Kelleher and after Ted Berrigan

yr reading to

pause

& intimate sound

gadji beri bimba

pace

switchback

or intrinsic Hugo Ball

discovery

beat, clear & steady

glandridi laili lonni cadori

& allowance

thanks

& what I am seeing in dark

foreground

chu chu chu

wintry branches of April

made a mistake

taut time

taciturn

meek transition

t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t

in train time

grumpy laboratory

inebriated to the Chinese

hut time (train)

exile (train) from the plane world

Zaum Canadian geese

so high

mallards

all sisters in the Olson project

but what of the bees going down

to cell phones

I await the Greeks of Syracuse

& excuse the maidens of Troy

& was it worth it, for them, the ride

a demesne of the real

on to the Capitol to make our Way

tuffm I zimbrabin

for not so

far off back there

a

Buffalo

mind is such a classy ground

civil or strife?

Albany working

the weather yet?

over the age of 60

you’d better travel light

& Jonathan Skinner’s metabolism of

birds

never shirks

the rails

species that is in his soundscape

a body tuned

inward

& Ben Friedlander: could you read the Bombed

America poem

in front of Baraka?

wonder the mode changes

& how much

a train’s side slides

snow on wire

trapped

in industrial middens is worth

sluice?

dilatoriness?

& other nesses

the path of

ur-Olsonians to follow

metallic falsetto, the rails the rails

with magic rattles

drums

serpents etc. I want to hum!

the thought is made in the mouth

pierce the reminder

I meant renditions

Fuck the renditions! I want to hum!

what opens opens

(going into trance now)

not gon’die

not gon’leave

can you hear me in the back?

grey willow grey

grey curate grey

shade & syllables in sky

tongue or change is color

gradation in gradual grays

in blues

guy behind me mumbling

“Creeley, Creeley”

(knew him apparently)

mouse on

something like an assembly hall

lateral ticket,

the girl winks

log on log

field on field

things are symbols of themselves

priimiitittiii tisch

hermetic AND utopic.

In motion Buffalo-NYC April ’07 after OlsonNow events.

[With thanks to Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Mayakovsky, Amiri Baraka & Kurt Schwitters.]

[Originally published in NHS 2007, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs07/Anne_Waldman.htm.]