Read Mexico City Blues Page 10


  Centurions. Potalishakions.

  Prerts. F. Funks. P.l.u.p.s.

  Frains Trails Moss.

  Scum. Sing my lil yella

  basket. A tisket. Tasket.

  Athabasket. Ma the basket.

  211th Chorus

  The wheel of the quivering meat

  conception

  Turns in the void expelling human beings,

  Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,

  Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roan

  Racinghorses, poxy bucolic pigtics,

  Horrible unnameable lice of vultures,

  Murderous attacking dog-armies

  Of Africa, Rhinos roaming in the

  jungle,

  Vast boars and huge gigantic bull

  Elephants, rams, eagles, condors,

  Pones and Porcupines and Pills –

  All the endless conception of living

  beings

  Gnashing everywhere in Consciousness

  Throughout the ten directions of space

  Occupying all the quarters in & out,

  From supermicroscopic no-bug

  To huge Galaxy Lightyear Bowell

  Illuminating the sky of one Mind –

  Poor! I wish I was free

  of that slaving meat wheel

  and safe in heaven dead

  212th Chorus

  All of this meat is in dreadful pain

  Anytime circumstances attain

  To its attention like a servant

  And pricking goads invest the flesh,

  And it quivers, meat, & owner cries

  And wishes “Why was I born with a body,

  Why do I have this painful hive

  Of hope-of-honey-milk yet bane

  Of bitterest reward, as if, to wish

  For flesh was sin alone itself – ?”

  And now you gotta pay, rhinoceros

  and you,

  Tho his hide’s toughern ten young men

  Armed with picks against the Grim

  Reaper

  Whose scythe is preceded by pitchforks

  Of temptation & hell, the Horror:

  “Think of pain, you’re being hurt,

  Hurry, hurry, think of pain

  Before they make a fool of you

  And discover that you dont feel

  It’s the best possible privilege

  To be alive just to die

  And die in denizen of misery”

  213th Chorus

  Poem dedicated to Allen Ginsberg

  – prap – rot – rort –

  mort – port – lort – snort

  – pell mell – rhine wine –

  roll royce – ring ming –

  mock my lot – roll my doll –

  pull my hairline – smell my kell –

  wail my siren – pile my ane –

  loose my shoetongue – sing my aim –

  loll my wildmoll – roll my

  luck –

  lay my cashier gone amuk –

  suck my lamppole, raise the bane,

  hang the traitor

  inside my brain

  Fill my pail well,

  ding my bell, smile for the ladies,

  come from hell

  214th Chorus

  Ling the long Chinese peeswallower,

  a lad like ye,

  Laid his hand on Garty’s knee

  and paid the pree –

  Shong the mong of anisfore,

  Maharajah

  Dusty, kinked the from of Jaidphur

  from the Konk mirror free

  So all Bojangles Banghard

  had to do

  Was roil his roily tooty

  mot the polyong,

  And if you knew what I meant

  you would say

  You disgust me –

  Aright, ring the devil free –

  Bong – Ring the devil free

  Prong – ring the devil free,

  Song, ring the devil free,

  Ong, ring the biney free

  215th Chorus

  Moll the mingling, mixup

  All your mixupery,

  And mail it in one envelopey:

  Propey, Slopey, Kree.

  Motey, slottey, notty,

  Potty, shotty, rotty, wotty,

  Salty, grainy, wavey,

  Takey, Carey, Andy

  Sari Pari Avi Ava

  Gava lava mava dava

  Sava wava ga-ha-va

  Graharva pharva

  Dharma rikey rokkkk

  Tokkkk sokkkk

  Mrockk, the Org

  Of Old Pootatolato

  England Ireland

  O

  Sail to Sea

  216th-A Chorus

  Fuck, I’m tired of this imagery

  – I wanta quit this horseshit

  go home

  and go to bed

  But I got no home,

  sickabed,

  suckatootle,

  wanta led

  bonda londa

  rolla molla

  sick to my

  bella bella

  donna donna

  I’m a goner

  Soner, loner,

  moaner,

  Poan, cornbelly,

  No loan,

  Ai, ack,

  C r a c k /

  I’m sick of this

  misery poesy/ flap Jean

  Louis

  Miseree

  216th-B Chorus

  Filling the air with an arbitrary dream –

  When no desire arises, that is the original

  Feeling of peace in Actual Nature –

  It is not moot to question how a dream

  ends

  Whenaslong as it ends –

  A Baby in Pain:

  tell the proud seminal mother

  how many more of that she wants

  to satisfy her fertile ego

  and how many more babies

  crying in the night, angry screech,

  knowing that their flesh is on the block

  of death the hungry butcher.

  – how many pigs hung upsidedown

  and slowly bled to death

  by reverent ritual fools

  with no noses and no eyes

  Emancipate the human masses

  Of this world from slavery to life

  And death, by abolishing death

  And exterminating birth –

  O Samson me that –

  The Venerable Kerouac, friend of Cows

  DEPEND ON VAST MOTIONLESS THOUGHT

  216th-C Chorus

  Well roofed pleasant little hut,

  screened from winds:

  That’s all I need. Foursquare

  The image of the Buddha in my brain,

  Drawing from the countryside the verdant

  Fantasm of conception, saying:

  “We green imageries of bush & tree,

  Like you, have risen from a mystery,

  And the mystery is fantastic,

  Unreal, illusion, and sane,

  And strange – It is: When ye

  Are not born, thou never showest:

  When thou art born thou showest,

  Thou showest emeralds and pine trees

  And thou showest, and if not born

  Thou showest naught in white

  Dazzling buried in mindless obscure sea

  That strange eternity devises to befool,

  Befoul and play unfair with Mag

  The worshipper and worrier, Man,

  Mag, Mad,

  it’s all green trees, men

  And dogs of toothbone:

  All shine in the dust,

  All the same Novice Scotia”

  217th Chorus

  Sooladat smarty pines came prappin down

  My line of least regard last Prapopooty

  And whattaya think Old Father Time

  made him? a western sponnet

  Without no false on bonnet,

  Trap in t
he cock adus time of the Nigh,

  Slight the leak of recompense being

  hermasodized

  By finey wild traphoods in all

  their estapular

  glories

  Gleaming their shining-rising spears

  against the High Thap All Thup –

  So I aim my gazoota always

  to the God, remembering the origin

  Of all beasts and cod, Bostonian

  By nature, with no minda my own,

  Could write about railroads, quietus

  These blues, hurt my hand more,

  Rack my hand with labor of nada

  – Run 100 yard dash

  in Ole Ensanada –

  S what’ll have to do,

  this gin & tonics

  Perss o monnix

  twab

  twab

  twabble

  all day

  218th Chorus

  Sight the saver having from the coast

  put further items down – what? you

  wish to talk to me, hear me scratch

  at the mean little door, hiding in my bonnet –

  O come off it, the vast canopial

  Assemblies wait for yr honest spontaneous reply.

  What shall it be?

  I promise to reject pain when next

  My turn comes back again

  I promise not to steal, nor go to hell

  For stealing

  I promise to say Na

  When Tathagata’s Angels

  Ride for me. Na –

  I wanta go to Inside-Me,

  Is there such a place? No is.

  Flap the wack I smack the hydrant

  of desire, sip sop the twill –

  (hiding all them guys – ’twere

  as I told you, old dreams

  of young brides’ll do you no more good)

  Wake up Scribe! Pharisee!

  The axxabata

  f l O R I A N I O L A

  S P R I N G T I M E

  OW OH ALL

  OFFICIAL SEMINARY

  219th Chorus

  Saints, I give myself up to thee.

  Thou hast me. What mayest thou do?

  What hast thou? Hast nothing?

  Hast illusion. Hast rage, regret,

  Hast pain. Pain wont be found

  Outside the Monastery only –

  Hast decaying saints like Purushka

  Magnificent Russian-booted bird loving

  Father Zossima under the cross

  In his father cell in Holy Russia

  And Alyosha falls to the ground

  And Weeps, as Rakitin smears.

  Grushenka sits him on her lap

  And lacky daisies him to lull

  And love and loll with her

  And wild he runs home in the night

  Over Charade Chagall fences

  snow-white

  To the pink cow of his father’s ear,

  Which he slits, presenting to Ivan

  As an intellectual courtesy, Dmitri

  Burps, Smerdyakov smirks.

  The Devil giggles in his poorclothes.

  Saints, accept me to the drama

  of thy faithful desire.

  No me? No drama to desire?

  No Alyosha, no Russia, no tears?

  Good good good good, my saints.

  No saints? No no no my saints.

  No no? No such thing as no.

  220th Chorus

  Pieces of precious emerald and jade

  Come from igneous rock once on fire,

  Erupted through a volcano, sandstone,

  Came out oozing in crevices

  Pieces of light long buried in the earth

  Are diamonds and floods of them.

  “Amen the Jewel in the Lotus!”

  Prays the Tibetan Saint with Prayerwheel,

  “Om Mani Padhme Hum,”

  He wants to pile up credit

  Like the jewel in the rock

  So that when he’s found

  The doves will have laid aground

  Eggs of bright amethystine

  Wallowing splendorous decay,

  Kings of Ore, art of fathers

  Handed to sons, fire and air.

  Kingdoms have been founded on diamonds,

  Emeralds and pearls, and walkways

  Of padded lily milky meshed

  And crushed in holy feet, Maha

  Graha Sattva, Being of Great Power,

  Fortunes in Wisdom, Stores of Love.

  Mountains rise high, diamonds shine,

  Men ride high the alumpshine

  The lump sunshine

  Delicious is the taste of Porcupine

  221st Chorus

  Old Man Mose

  Early American Jazz pianist

  Had a grandson

  Called Deadbelly.

  Old Man Mose walloped

  the rollickin keyport

  Wahoo wildhouse Piany

  with monkies in his hair

  drooling spaghetti, beer

  and beans, with a cigar

  mashed in his countenance

  of gleaming happiness

  the furtive madman

  of old sane times.

  Deadbelly dont hide it –

  Lead killed Leadbelly –

  Deadbelly admit

  Deadbelly modern cat

  Cool – Deadbelly, Man,

  Craziest.

  Old Man Mose is Dead

  But Deadbelly get Ahead

  Ha ha ha

  222nd Chorus

  Mexico Camera

  I’m walkin down Orizaba Street

  looking everywhere. Ahead of me I

  see a mansion, with wall, big

  lawn, Spanish interiors, fancy

  windows very impressive

  Further bloated copulated bloats

  Silent separative furniture

  The Story of No-Mad, silent

  separative corpses;

  Ignorino the Indian General

  He Chief, wow,

  Of Southern Sonora,

  You know the Bum,

  what was his name?

  Asserfelter Shnard Marade,

  the Marauding Hightailer

  of Southern Slopetawvia,

  krum, full of kerrs and kierke

  gaard/

  and bash bah

  the Plap

  223rd Chorus

  Pineys hursaphies,

  Finally allawies,

  Fonally finalles.

  Hookies from OO-SKOOL,

  Polls for Who Hook Fish,

  Fowl for Fair Weather.

  Wu! cries the Indian Boy

  in the South Sampan Night,

  “Esta que ferro,” you be of iron,

  I’ll be a damn tootely wow

  wot Rot Moongut Rise Shine

  Hogwater Wheel –

  Juice a the eel –

  In Old Lake Miel –

  Honey wheel –

  Sound

  E Terpt T A pt T E rt W –

  Song of I Snug Our Song

  Sang of Asia High Gang

  Clang of Iron O Hell Pot –

  Spert of Ole Watson Ville

  Gert –

  Smert –

  Noise of old sad so

  Such Is

  Sing a little ditty of the moon inside the loony

  boon of snow white blooms in Parkadystan

  I S T A M H O W H U C K

  224th Chorus

  Great God Amighty

  What’s to be done?

  O what’s to be done?

  Sings the majestical keener

  and moaner

  At the Mexican Funeral home –

  And from a clap in the upclouds

  Comes a clap of clouts,

  “All has been done.”

  As Theravada say “Nothing”

  Nada moonshine number, whats been done?

  All been done – all singly blessed –

  All has b
een done? The mansion’s

  been built and Damema

  grown old & died

  in burning house within?

  And Seventeen Sutras & Lotuses

  Transmitted by Perfumed Hand

  From Jingle to Jiggle

  The Hip Hou Parade

  of Togas & Mowrdogrogas

  Of Maharajah India –

  ‘All’s been done’

  ‘so rest’

  Repose yourself

  225th Chorus

  The void that’s highly embraceable

  during sleep

  Has no location and no fret;

  Yet I keep restless mental searching

  And geographical meandering

  To find the Holy Inside Milk

  Damema gave to all.

  Damema, Mother of Buddhas,

  Mother of Milk

  In the dark I wryly remonstrate

  With my sillier self

  For feigning to believe

  In the reality of anything

  Especially the so-called reality

  Of giving the Discipline

  The full desert-hut workout

  And superman solitude

  And continual enlightened trance

  With no cares in the open

  And no walls closing in

  The Bright Internal Heaven

  Of the Starry Night

  Of the Cloud Mopped afternoon –

  Oh, Ah, Gold, Honey,

  I’ve lost my way.

  226th Chorus

  There is no Way to lose.

  If there was a way,

  then,

  when sun is shining on pond

  and I go West, thou East,

  which one does the true sun

  follow?

  which one does the true one

  borrow?

  since neither one is the true one,

  there is no true one way.

  And the sun is the delusion

  Of a way multiplied by two

  And multiplied millionfold.

  Since there is no Way, no Buddhas,

  No Dharmas, no Conceptions,

  Only One Ecstasy –

  And Right Mindfulness

  Is mindfulness that the way is No-Way –

  Anyhow Sameway –

  Then what am I to do

  Beyond writing this instructing

  Poesy, ride a magic carpet

  Of self ecstasy, or wait

  For death like the children

  In the Funeral Street after

  The black bus has departed –

  Or – what?

  227th Chorus

  Merde and misery,

  I’m completely in pain

  Waiting without mercy

  For the worst to happen.