Why can't I be paid to be poetic with images? I have tricked my mind for a mottled house Into bottled thought like leopard-skin You love me as moons Shatter the beauty of sunlight Into thousand starlight Why isn't the Blake-light, true? The automobile blood is power A city fire except the sign stares for hours at night From outside terrorized tower which was gleaming Why can't I live on forever with my lines? With English and carry out my lyric, blindly I write my mind, and I will drive politics, effusively So, why can't I write? Ravenous hunger eats inside at her aching limbs My mind is numb without choice I feel dumb without a voice I am no politician to speak for her Why can't I write for my lover? I go for the smoke, upstairs An upstanding man to my dark-skinned friend She is drunk with ***** and cigarette ends In a war with clocks and arguing, pugnacious She will save me from ****** ****** While I think of cure and release from fools Thinking of only you You! Without the mad drunken ******* at the silver spoon My biography is decided too So, why can't I write for my dying riches and mind? Why can't I find the newest moon Where the moon, often, hides?
America, I am putting my queer shoulder behind the wheel Allen Ginsberg