America-Allen Ginsberg

[ti:America] [ar:Allen Ginsberg] [al:Howl] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.86]America [00:01.25] [00:04.45]America I've given you all and now I'm nothing [00:07.14] [00:08.77]America two dollars and twenty seven cents January 17 1956 [00:13.23] [00:14.58]I can't stand my own mind [00:15.87] [00:17.28]America when will we end the human war [00:19.22] [00:20.13]Go f**k yourself with your atom bomb [00:21.76] [00:22.47]I don't feel good don't bother me [00:23.83] [00:24.46]I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind [00:26.64] [00:28.39]America when will you be angelic [00:29.86] [00:30.87]When will you take off your clothes [00:32.15] [00:32.80]When will you look at yourself through the grave [00:34.57] [00:35.24]When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites [00:37.32] [00:38.14]America why are your libraries full of tears [00:40.80] [00:41.87]America when will you send your eggs to India [00:44.60]I'm sick of your insane demands [00:45.99] [00:46.62]When can I go into the supermarke [00:48.19]And buy what I need with my good looks [00:49.61] [00:50.63]America after all it is you [00:51.79]And I who are perfect not the next world [00:53.76] [00:55.10]Your machinery is too much for me [00:56.45] [00:57.25]You made me want to be a saint [00:58.48] [00:59.16]There must be some other way to settle this argument [01:01.26] [01:01.86]Burroughs is in Tangiers [01:03.37]I don't think he'll come back it's sinister [01:04.96] [01:05.73]Are you being sinister [01:06.86]Or is this some form of practical joke [01:08.47] [01:09.25]I'm trying to come to the point [01:10.35] [01:11.33]I refuse to give up my obsession [01:12.68] [01:13.79]America stop pushing [01:15.18]I know what I'm doing [01:15.96] [01:16.51]America the plum blossoms are falling [01:18.30] [01:19.15]I haven't read the newspapers for months [01:20.71] [01:21.36]Everyday somebody goes on trial for murder [01:23.16] [01:23.76]America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies [01:25.54] [01:26.42]America I used to be a communist [01:27.69]When I was a kid [01:28.59]I'm not sorry [01:29.26] [01:30.58]I smoke m*******a every chance I get [01:32.22] [01:32.95]I sit in my house for days on end [01:34.81]And stare at the roses in the closet [01:36.26] [01:36.86]When I go to Chinatown I get drunk [01:38.47]And never get laid [01:39.20] [01:39.73]My mind is made up there's going to be trouble [01:41.58] [01:42.15]You should have seen me reading Marx [01:43.33] [01:43.91]I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations [01:46.01] [01:47.09]America I still haven't told you [01:48.44]What you did to Uncle Max [01:49.56]After he came over from Russia [01:50.78] [01:51.74]I'm addressing you [01:52.77] [01:53.45]Are you going to let your emotional life [01:55.61]Be run by Time Magazine [01:56.76] [01:57.64]I'm obsessed by Time Magazine [01:59.18] [01:59.84]I read it every week [02:00.92] [02:01.59]Its cover stares at me every time [02:03.14]I slink past the corner candystore [02:04.77] [02:05.62]I read it in the basement [02:06.86]Of the Berkeley Public Library [02:08.05] [02:08.71]It's always telling me about responsibility [02:10.61] [02:11.35]Businessmen are serious [02:12.26] [02:13.05]Movie producers are serious [02:14.37] [02:14.99]Everybody's serious but me [02:16.33] [02:17.30]It occurs to me that I am America [02:19.28] [02:20.36]I am talking to myself again [02:21.66] [02:22.62]Asia is rising against me [02:24.96]I haven't got a Chinaman's chance [02:26.18] [02:26.90]I'd better consider my national resources [02:28.79] [02:29.81]My national resources consist of [02:31.75]Two joints of marijuana [02:33.16] [02:33.86]Millions of genitals [02:34.48] [02:35.37]An unpublishable private literature that goes 1400mph [02:38.79] [02:39.83]And twenty five thousand mental institutions [02:41.48] [02:42.46]I say nothing about my prisons [02:43.98] [02:44.52]Nor the millions of underprivileged [02:45.86]Who live in my flowerpots [02:47.27]Under the light of five hundred suns [02:49.01] [02:50.02]I have ready abolished the whorehouses of France [02:52.09] [02:52.83]Tangiers is the next to go [02:54.27] [02:55.14]My ambition is to be President despite [02:57.01]The fact that I'm a Catholic [02:58.51] [02:59.35]America how can I write a holy litany [03:02.32]In your silly mood [03:03.20] [03:04.44]I will continue like Henry Ford [03:06.87]My strophes are as individual [03:08.14]As his automobiles [03:09.21]More so they're all different sexes [03:10.46] [03:11.54]America I will sell you strophes 2500 apiece [03:15.08]500 dollars down on your old strophe [03:16.91] [03:17.42]America free Tom Mooney [03:18.67] [03:19.56]America save the Spanish Loyalists [03:21.37] [03:22.27]America Sacco and Vanzetti must not die [03:24.50] [03:25.70]I am the Scottsboro Boys [03:27.08] [03:28.24]America when I was seven mama [03:29.77]Took me to Communist cell meetings [03:31.46]They sold us garbanzos [03:32.45]A handful per ticket [03:33.44]A ticket costs a nickel [03:34.57]And the speeches were free [03:35.89]Everybody was angelic [03:36.65]And sentimental about the workers [03:38.12]It was all so sincere you have no idea [03:39.96]What a good thing the party was in 1835 [03:42.19]Scott Nearing was a grand old man [03:43.72]A real mensch [03:44.28] [03:44.96]Mother Bloor made me cry [03:46.07]I once saw Israel Amter playing [03:47.57] [03:48.61]Everybody must have been a spy [03:50.08] [03:50.88]America you don't really want to go to war [03:52.75] [03:53.49]America it's them bad Russians [03:55.24] [03:56.01]Them Russians them Russians [03:57.26]And them Chinamen [03:57.96]And them Russians [03:59.11] [04:00.09]The Russia wants to eat us alive [04:01.47] [04:02.52]The Russia's power mad [04:03.48] [04:04.01]She wants to take our cars from out our garages [04:06.64]Her wants to grab Chicago [04:07.72] [04:08.63]Her needs a Red Readers' Digestses [04:11.36] [04:12.07]Her wants our auto plants in Siberia [04:13.81] [04:14.82]Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations [04:17.15] [04:17.71]That no good Ugh [04:19.08]Him make Indian learn read [04:20.78] [04:21.53]Him need big black niggers ah [04:23.64] [04:24.33]Her make us all work sixteen hours a day Help [04:27.22] [04:28.12]America this is quite serious [04:29.50] [04:30.35]America this is the impression [04:31.60]I get from looking in a television set [04:33.23]America is this correct [04:34.37] [04:35.23]I'd better get right down to the job [04:37.16] [04:37.76]It's true I don't want to join the Army [04:39.72]Or turn lathes in precision parts factories [04:41.80]I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway [04:43.60] [04:44.91]America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel [04:47.57]America - Allen Ginsberg