(Detroit riot, 1967)

Prelude

When "Moon" comes over "Mountain"

& you & I will be "free"

we'll shoot each other dead-for –

nobody escapes the violence

not even you in Sotheby's & Bloomfield Hills

not even you

burned in the basement of A & P –

Poem

W

    i

    n

    gs

    I se

    e whi

    te still

    wings sprea

    ding I see white

     wings unfolding sus

        pended for flight     wings

             suspended     for flight for     one

                 crimson     ray of sun    light fle    xing a-

                      cross the     still     wings     spreading    un

                           folding.     olding.     olding.     olding.     blue wings

                                  rising     turning     gold go    ing     yel    low glo    wing

                                           white I see     wings fading     red turning     magenta

                                                          wings falling turning     violet     going     grey

                                                                                                                                              fading

                                                                                                                                                    BLACK.

WHEELS ARE WHEELS ARE WHEELS ARE TURNING ROUND & TURNING ROUND & TURNING ROUND & MANDALA OF LIFE & MANDALA OF DEATH & MANDALA OF HATE MANDALA LOVE MANDALA –

DARKENSS! DARKNESS! DARKNESS!

NET THE NET THE STEEL THE MESH OF DARKNESS – STICK UP MIND ZAP CANDY STORE NEON A-BOMB BABY

MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI & THE ORANGE LEVIATHANS COME MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

FLAME! FLAME! FLAME! FLAME! FLAME! FLAME! FLAME!

NAKED NAKED NAKED NAKEN NAKED NAKED NAKED LILLITH NAKED LILLITH NAKED LILLITH NAKED LILLITH NAKED HIPS & NAKED NIPPLES NAKED LILLITH STEPPING OUT OF THEATER POSTERS ALL OVER THE PLANET –

NAKED LILLITH CHANTING MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI –

MIND ZAP A-BOMB INSTANT CRYSTAL APPLIANCES JUNGLE BUNNY WHIPHORSE FACTOR LIT UP STROBE LIGHT ACID LIKE AN ICE CREAM SUNDAY-EE-AY-EE –

SECONAL PEPPERMINT DARKNESS BARBEQUE LOBOTOMY DARKNESS – CARTOON BULGING NAKED GARBAGE NET THE NET THE STEEL THE MESH THE DARKNESS! DARKNESS! DARKNESS! MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI & THE ORANGE LEVIATHANS COME MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

NAKED NEON GREY GREEN LILLITH WITH CRIMSON WITH ORANGE EYES OWL EYES OF RADAR – NAKED LILLITH HYPNOTIZING CHANTING MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI –

NAKED GREY GREEN LILLITH STEPPING OUT OF THEATER POSTERS ALL OVER THE PLANET – NAKED LILLITH LEADING WINGCHILDREN DOWN THE DARK BLUE DARKNESS – NAKED LILLITH LEADING WINGCHILDREN CHANTING WINGCHILDREN CHANTING give us Barrabas! Give us Barrabas! GIVE US BARRABAS! GIVE US BARRABAS! Give us Barrabas!

LEADING NIGHTINGALES DOWN THE DOWN THE DARK BLUE CORRIDOR INTO DARKNESS INTO MAYARD HAYARD GAYARTH’S GARDEN OF SEXUAL FRUSTRATIONS – MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MANIPULATED BY MANIPULATED BY MANIPULATED BY WHERE THEY ARE MANIPULATED BY SEBCHAD THE CONEY ISLAND PUPPETEER SITTING IN HIS GOLD PAINTED APARTMENT – MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI & THE ORANGE LEVIATHANS COME MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

American pie.

Sacred American pie.

Plastic wrapped.

& jazz musicians play to cop pie & poets write to cop pie –

& artists paint to cop pie & critics write to cop pie –

& detectives cop pie & generals cop pie & scientists cop pie –

& businessmen cop pie & politicians cop pie & thieves cop pie –

& laborers cop pie & labor leaders cop pie & management cop pie –

& clergymen cop pie & housewives make sex to cop pie –

& THIS IS THE AGE OF THE EASY-COP & IF YOU WANT PIE IN THE FACE THEN YOU CAN HAVE IT – PIE IN THE FA-A-A-ACE! THE HAVING-COPPED SIT AROUND IN BARS & PIE-EYED & WAITING FOR DEATH WHILE OTHERS HAVING NOT-COPPED RUSH BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE –

Dream city people waiting for death –

What death have you beside death?

Dream city people eating pig and thinking pig –

eating chicken cattle looking like hens & cows –

chemical thorazine amphetamine city whose dream appetite will not be satisfied by crack cocaine – what better death do you have than death itself?

Mind control city mass inculcating city of materialistic opportunistic goals –

which of your deaths is better than the one death itself?

City of mass inculcating in primary & secondary schools of middle class mores upon all diverse segments of society – what death must I face which is worse than to be among the faceless ones of this city?

I’M WRITING THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN PSEUDO-CIVILIZATION & SON SHOOTS FATHER & BROTHER SHOOTS BROTHER & BLACKS SHOOT WHITE & WORKERS SHOOT BOSSES & COPS SHOOT WORKERS THE MEATEATERS SHOOT EACH OTHER – MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI –

OH YOU GOTTA BE A WALK’N BODHISATTVA –

IF YOU WANNA GET ALONG ALRIGHT –

I SAY YOU GOTTA BE A BODHISATVA –

IF YOU WANNA WALK THE STREETS AT NIGHT –

‘CAUSE JOHNNY HERUKA

          HE’S GONNA PURSUE YOU

               HE’S GONNA COME & DRINK YOUR BLOOD & GNAW YOUR BONES

                      & HACK YOU LIMB FROM LIMB

                            ‘CAUSE YOU DIDN’T PAY THE RENT ON TIME

                                 & DIDN’T PAY THE GAS ON TIME

                                      YOU DIDN’T PAY THE PHONE ON TIME

                                          THE LIGHTS ON TIME THE LAW ON TIME

                                             THE STATE ON TIME THE GATE ON TIME

                                               THE FATE ON TIME THE RATE ON TIME

                                                 ON TIME ON TIME

                                                   ON TIME ON TIME THE TIME THE

                                                     TIME THE TIME THE TIME

                                                      TIME TIME TIME

                                                       TIME TIME

                                                        I’M I’M

                                                        I’M I’M I’M

                                                        I’M I’M

                                                        I’M I’M

                                                        I’M

                                                        I’M

                                                        I’M

TELL’N YA LIKE IT IS NOW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW –

YOU GOTTA SEE THE MORNING LIGHT OF INNER VISION I MEAN YOU GOTTA SEE YOU GOTTA SEE THE GOLDEN BODHISATTVAS RIDING ON THE RAYS OF WHITE LIGHT –

I MEAN YOU GOTTA SEE THE GOLDEN BODHISATTVAS GUIDING SIXTY THOUSAND ARHATS OF THE MIND RIDING FIERY STALLIONS OF THE HIDDEN SUTRAS ON THE GOLDEN CLOUDS IN THE WESTERN SKY TO THE EAST OF MOUNT SUMERU IN THE CENTER OF YOUR MIDDLE BRAI-AY-AY-AY-AY-AY-NNNN –

OH THE APEX OF IT ALL IS CHAOS – OH THE APEX OF IT ALL IS CHAOS –

& THE ORANGE LEVIATHANS COME MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

OH WHAT STRANGE FASCINATION THIS IS – OH WHAT STRANGE FASCINATION THIS IS –

MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIDI MIMIMIMIDI –

OH THE APEX OF IT ALL IS CHAOS – OH THE APEX OF IT ALL IS CHAOS –

& THE ORANGE LEVIATHANS COME MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

THEY KEEP MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

THEY KEEP MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –

MARCHING BYE-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-EE –