02-18-2014, 04:18 AM
A nice little poem amidst the rampant nationalism of the Olympics from my favourite book of poetry, Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac:
51st Chorus
America is a permissible dream,
Providing you remember ants
Have Americas and Russians
Like the Possessed have Americas
And little Americas are had
By baby mules in misty fields
And it is named after Americus
Vespucci of Sunny Italy,
And nobody cares how you hang
Your spaghetti wash
On the Pasta Rooftops
Of Oh Yawn Opium
Fellaheen Espagna
Olvierto Milano
Afternoon, when men
gamble & ramble & fuck
and women watch the wash
with one eye on the grocer boy
and one eye on the loon
and one eye
in the universe
is Tathagata’s
51st Chorus
America is a permissible dream,
Providing you remember ants
Have Americas and Russians
Like the Possessed have Americas
And little Americas are had
By baby mules in misty fields
And it is named after Americus
Vespucci of Sunny Italy,
And nobody cares how you hang
Your spaghetti wash
On the Pasta Rooftops
Of Oh Yawn Opium
Fellaheen Espagna
Olvierto Milano
Afternoon, when men
gamble & ramble & fuck
and women watch the wash
with one eye on the grocer boy
and one eye on the loon
and one eye
in the universe
is Tathagata’s