Ruhr-Gebiet——Allen Ginsberg


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Too much industry

too much eats

too much beer

too much cigarettes

 

Too much philosophy

too much thought forms

not enough rooms——

not enough trees

 

Too much Police

too much computers

too much hi fi

too much Pork

 

Too much coffee

too much smoking

under gray slate roofs

too much obedience

 

Too many bellies

too many business suits

too much paperwork

too many magazines

 

Too much industry

No fish in the Rhine

Lorelei poisoned

Too much embarrassent

 

Too many fatigued

workers on the train

Ghost jews scream

on the streetcorner

 

Too much old murder

too much white torture

too much one Stammheim

too many happy Nazis

 

Too many crazy students

Not enough farms

not enough Appletrees

Not enough nut trees

 

Too much money

Too many poor

turks without vote

"Guests" do the work

 

Too much metal

Too much fat

Too many jokes

not enough meditation

 

Too much anger

Too much sugar

Too many smokestacks

Not enough snow

 

Too many radioactive

plutonium wastebarrels

Take the Rhine gold

Build a big tomb

 

A gold walled grave

to bury deadly nuclear slag

all the Bank’s gold

Shining impenetrable

 

All the German gold

will save the nation

Build a gold house

to bury the Devil

 

December 15, 1979