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1 " What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? "
― Allen Ginsberg , The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
2 " Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise? "
3 " The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene "
4 " War is good business Invest your son "
5 " Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell "
6 " I broadcast thru Time "
7 " What Patriot wrote that shit? "
8 " that blue flame burnning? Industry! "
9 " Earth pollution identical with Mind pollution, consciousness Pollution identical with filthy sky "
10 " Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone "
11 " YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN "
12 " Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence "
13 " ...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets "
14 " Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers! "
15 " Clock hands move noonward "
16 " LSD Shakti-snake settles like Gas into Consciousness "
17 " Forget pleasure and Ambition "
18 " A missle lost Unprogrammed "
19 " Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm "
20 " washing terror-waves round earth-globe back to suburb TV home night kitchens "
