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and the sun wields mercy	A
but like a jet torch carried to high	B
and the jets whip across its sight	C
and rockets leap like toads	D
and the boys get out the maps	E
and pin cushion the moon	F
old green cheese	G
no life there but too much on earth	H
our unwashed India boys	I
crossing their legs playing pipes	J
starving with sucked in bellies	G
watching the snakes volute	C
like beautiful women in the hungry air	K
the rockets leap	L
the rockets leap like hares	M
clearing clump and dog	N
replacing out dated bullets	O
the Chinese still carve	P
in jade quietly stuffing rice	Q
into their hunger a hunger	R
a thousand years old	C
their muddy rivers moving with fire	R
and song barges houseboats	S
pushed by drifting poles	T
of waiting without wanting	U
in Turkey they face the East	C
on their carpets	O
praying to a purple god	C
who smokes and laughs	V
and sticks fingers in their eyes	W
blinding them as gods will do	C
but the rockets are ready peace is no longer	R
for some reason precious	X
madness drifts like lily pads	Y
on a pond circling senselessly	Z
the painters paint dipping	U
their reds and greens and yellows	A2
poets rhyme their loneliness	X
musicians starve as always	B2
and the novelists miss the mark	C2
but not the pelican the gull	Z
pelicans dip and dive rise	W
shaking shocked half dead	C
radioactive fish from their beaks	W
indeed indeed the waters wash	D2
the rocks with slime and on wall st	C
the market staggers like a lost drunk	E2
looking for his key ah	F2
this will be a good one by God	C
it will take us back to the	G2
sabre teeth the winged monkey	A
scrabbling in pits over bits	W
of helmet instrument and glass	W
a lightning crashes across	W
the window and in a million rooms	W
lovers lie entwined and lost	C
and sick as peace	W
the sky still breaks red and orange for the	G2
painters and for the lovers	W
flowers open as they always have	H2
opened but covered with thin dust	C
of rocket fuel and mushrooms	W
poison mushrooms it's a bad time	I2
a dog sick time curtain	J2
act standing room only	A
SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT again	K2
by god by somebody and something	U
by rockets and generals and	C
leaders by poets doctors comedians	W
by manufacturers of soup	L2
and biscuits Janus faced hucksters	W
of their own indexterity	C
I can now see now the coal slick	M2
contaminated fields a snail or	N2
bile obsidian a fish or	N2
in the shallows an obloquy of our	R
source and our sight	C
has this happened before is history	A
a circle that catches itself by the tail	Z
a dream a nightmare	K
a general's dream a presidents dream	O2
a dictators dream	O2
can't we awaken	J2
or are the forces of life greater than we are	P2
can't we awaken must we forever	R
dear friends die in our sleep	L
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Charles Bukowski

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