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Jerry Younkins

the    spade    outside
with    the    tight
bandana/    for    a    headband
looks    like    a    Jap    mjr.
in    an    old    war    film.

educated    in    America    (the    film)
                      Harvard
wouldn't    carry    on    Detroit    streets.

 

the    young    raccoon    comes    each    night
to    forage    among    the    garbage    cans.
he’ll    get    fat
if    I    keep    leaving    the    lid    off.

 

psychedelic poem

 

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OH,             INSANITY

CREEPS

                    (SLOSHY

                                      BEAST.

(yes, beautiful
          Ann
          and
          Janet.

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THE FOREIGNERS

"Americans
who    are    foreign
to    silence
and    thought."

                               GARY SNYDER

a   book   on   Atlantis
turned   out   to   be
undocumented   theory.
everytime   I   walk
on   Detroit   streets,
the   whole   sunken   continent
verified.
"ya   can’t   dance
if   ya   can’t   hear
the   mus-
ic."
be-
neath   sea-level
crushed,   the   foundation/s
crushed,
fallen down.
lying   some
where.
in   visible
in   silence
not   visible   to   silence,
foreign   to   it.
he   came   home
and   went   to   bed.
didn't   hear   what   was   said
to   him,   from   anyone.
his   house   fell   down
then   the   continent   sank.
and   he   still   slept
and   he’ll   never   get   up
and   he’s   already   slept   too   long
already   6:00
and   no   wife   to   wake   him
for   dinner.

-- Jerry Younkins

“TEX”

the male whore of Texas
sows his napalm sperm
across Earth.
the fire children dance over                     not
the yellow children.                                      the fire children
I do not, and will not                                      I fear
condone                                                               but
his helicopter anus.                                             they grow
                                                                                   up.
sips sperm of death orgams from gun barrels
I see Asia, ball and chain
hi ho, Tex- let’s ball again!
you filthy cocksucker.

bodies, Tex!
ya gonna bury those bodies
or just let them lie there?

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the space war cock- his lips
draw it fiery, and gargantuan
across Earth.

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one hangs upside down.
the rest I use to smash
cockroaches. on his dead
ear.

not deaf,
yellow children-
not deaf.

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Tex-
you necromancer,
slippery war cock
slides up black bile-
disease- mouth slaver-
poison anus. "war, war, war."
his passion grunts swell
the mausoleum
up his ass goes the war abortionist' s
                         cock
Tex on bis stomach.
“we can contain this one, Tex."

the mattress quivers- dead women's
breasts red urinal jello.

 

THE DUEL

fantasy sword blades
how many have cracked
on the dented, gouged, armour of
out there.
                    the real world
of hate & fear
losing the taste of love in the bitter mists
of stares, hostile faces.
              (boundaries & repressions).

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the new consciousness McClure speaks of.
man law cannot hold back
                                                 the rays
                                                 of light.
"Baby, there aren't any laws in the universe
that you can break
but you make it hard."

For The Vietnamese Dead

God-Hand
the fingers of Ahu
lay waste to hunger.

dark laborers bear up
THE HEART-
dark laborers bring peace to
the body-

in death shall there be
no thirst
no hunger
the sadness of the heart
gone.
"O, RA
          do good to him
                this day
          more than yesterday."

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union-
the goddess MUIT,
& the scent of ISIS.
let the thighs of Egyptian goddesses
wrap around your land.
let the eye of HORUS, son of OSIRIS
be yours-
that it might look upon yellow men
& white men.

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(past the celestial abyss)

PRAYER TO RA & THOTH.

"MAKE HIM TO FEW WITH YOU
LET YOUR FOOD BE HIS
LET YOUR DRINK BE HIS
MAKE HIM STRONG IN YOUR STRENGTH
LET HIM SAIL IN YOUR SEXTET BOAT"

 

For The Vietnamese Dead/2

net caster-
the birds of the reedy marshes
of Aaru.

given the pool of water
in the Field of Offerings
(Seket-­hetep)

yr. water the wine of RA.

you shall circle heaven, as does RA
the sun-
travel the sky as does THOTH the moon-
conceived in night, brought forth in it.

All of Amanti
becomes yr. oneness
in death.
you who eat and drink with Osiris.

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silent LSD meditations
beside tho Detroit River
looking inward                                   outward
consciousness streams out-­
                                                   ward.
rising, the golden angel
peace- his gold dilated pupils
shine                                                    light
           down
                      upon
                                 me.
towering drug angel of light.

a union of tongues,
his forms-                                            for
explains,
what words are
for.
the spirit.

This, my way.
the sign.                                               light.
I am branded in his light.

 

MYSTIC EYES

golden is the vision of the golden eye
behold all,     mind eye.
evil eye, demon eye, death eye
                argue     with
astral eye, peace eye, love eye.
between them everything is seen-
will not argue back.

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another Earth
her eyes gone through the windshield
unharmed
her face scarred for life
throat torn on shattered glass.

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HANDS IN POCKETS
feeling the heat

teeth and gums

peering beyond flesh and bone
mystic eyes –
                           sparkle and moisten.
when I don't look at objects
I see through walls.

sweeping past telescopes, microscopes
peering at secrets of the cosmos.

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counsel me,
mystic eyes
glaring firesuns-    yellow suns &
                                  white stars.
I read your eyes in embers, runess, &
                                  the I CHING.

Mystic Eyes / 2

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cats eyes see in our darknoss
cow eyes by roadside reflected in light
deer eyes paralyzed by flashlight

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I say to the killers,
remind the fools-­
THAT
EVERYTHING IS SEEN.
and remembered.

two mystic eyes see all- the third remembers.

 

Mystic Eyes

 

for the death
of innocent beings.

Jerry Younkins

Detroit/ 1965

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