GINSBERG
ALLEN GINSBERG CHANTED+DANCED LIKE A FLOPPY CHILD
And Timothy Leary deary coined his famous saying: Turn On
Tune In Drop Out Did you know he was a Harvard man? Fed so
much free LSD to Kerouac’s sidekick Neal Cassady that he ended up
face down in a dusty Mexican town circa 1968 could not resuscitate
Daddy considered these guys a generation of swine +would soon come
to include Mick among it’s minions But then Lee was more Thelonius +
Bird + Reefer You do not mess with old guard jazz cats under any
circumstances So much cooler than anyone called a beatnik or god forbid
a boomer!
First gen Jazzers did not have to organize Be-Ins They just WERE Lived
through the Great Depression Prohibition +rampant racism Through Jungle-
Music Storyville Big Band +Bop They knew that only the toughest of the tough
would make it through On the other side of WW II old Satch had angina +by 67
segregation + Vietnam fuelled sit-ins The Summer of Love but a blip before The
Modern Reign of Hate
Ginsberg’s KADDISH was published in 61 prescient dirge for the new millennium:
Terror that woke the neighbours old ladies on the second floor recovering from
menopause all those rags between thighs sorry over lost babies husbands ashen
at 40 varicosed nude fat doomed
Today ISIS captured 400 Syrian refugees there in the desert for the taking While
daily thousands make the treacherous winter crossing to Lesbos Terror crouches
Politicians ban the term: World War III WE’VE GOT THIS! chortles Hilary
Walking home on freezing TO streets it’s -17 Did you know that Pope Francis
visited the largest synagogue in Rome today? Only the 3rd Pope to do so! Jews
corralled for centuries into the Ghetto adjacent There Francis gave the Holocaust
survivors present a standing ovation
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MOURNER’S KADDISH
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Yisgadal v’yiskadash sh’mei rabbaw (Amen) B’allmaw dee v’raw chir’usei v’yamlich malchusei,b’chayeichon, uv’yomeichon, uv’chayei d’chol beis yisroel, ba’agawlaw u’vizman kawriv, v’imru: Amen. (Cong: Amen. Y’hei sh’mei rabbaw m’vawrach l’allam u’l’allmei allmayaw) Y’hei sh’mei rabbaw m’vawrach l’allam u’l’allmei allmayaw. Yis’bawrach, v’yishtabach, v’yispaw’ar, v’yisromam, v’yis’nasei, v’yis’hadar, v’yis’aleh, v’yis’halawl sh’mei d’kudshaw b’rich hu (Cong. b’rich hu). L’aylaw min kol birchawsaw v’shirawsaw, tush’b’chawsaw v’nechemawsaw, da’ami’rawn b’all’maw, v’imru: Amein Y’hei shlawmaw rabbaw min sh’mayaw,v’chayim awleinu v’al kol yisroel, v’imru: Amein Oseh shawlom bim’ro’mawv, hu ya’aseh shawlom, awleinu v’al kol yisroel v’imru: Amein |
Winter 2016
