Welcome home America
its been a long dirty drip, we've managed to sit
through the jalopy transfix of your scenic byways,
cut turns into the mountains you lend us purple majesty
and shine shoes for dollar blues and keep traveling,
always another junction through your arteried touch,
your great depression foresight to let us crumble cement,
belly up and frying in the sun, our fish are dying,
our snorkels are run down and we come from here to here,
to meet you in the harbor, to hold you at the docks,
and we walk, we talk or not, but we move through you
we clot
and welcome home New York, welcome home Harlem,
welcome the sun down on your filthy meander in crosstown,
to breathe free as you stand on ancients brown
bookmarks
they lay bare youre shadowed dusty past, lost in done out
buildings,
and everyone wants a bed and breakfast for the tourists, but
they've left
and we reach into our contained bone lockers, pull out some
chairs,
and everyone can't wait for New York to clean up the north of
86,
where we hold free of a neo-zion hold on our souls,
camouflaged,
where we can live to walk over bridges held up in atlas poet,
and make it out of its walls unburied under the library
undone not!
And welcome my weary southerners who in the tar pit of coast
mingle now with the dead odes of the smiling sea turtles,
we hold this shell upsidedown and forever see its dead faded
glory
on to the afterlife for the soil, the rippled peaks of surf
the grown in swamp of fishing reel, the poor jobless empty
towns,
and you ask how they do not crack, and we arrive pipe and oil!
And in the consistent industrious melt of sky and orange
plumes fire,
the nightbirds and the howling serpents and phantasmogoria
fly
enravel the whisps of smoke to the bloodied land sick in
plague
and slowly drain and strain the graveyards of this fossil energy
dolphins rebel!
From sea to sea these penniless trespass of neptune gather and
speak,
Welcome home america to your plotting sealife and civil
strife,
for theyve brought us in shackle under race, under inequities
of quest,
and we attacked poor white and black! we attacked oh south
and the coasts!
under constant bombardment of the deemed inevitable
acceptable evolution
as we move farther into the machinations of youre glowing
super speeds,
we move further into the lorca, we move against this
technological upgrade!
shining furious mutants under gods sweet bestow of kindness
we fight
and share all this beautiful land with each other from the peaks
to the valleys
for they have tainted it and we as a people must take it back
for us to join the dolphins, the sacred seaweed
and they whisper in great accord how we shall succeed against
such a machine
and the language is sequestered, the speak is defined, the letter
set,
and if you deceive or disclose elsewise, speak out of defined
rhetoric,
we push pillow case over your face to be painted, discredited
and alone assassinated,
and we send out invitations to the poets in pennslvania, utah
and boise
we write poems about the poems of the past, for we now with
a pen and shaking!
strength we must bow down to and pray for our hiawatha,
our bridges and tomes!
welcome home america to a control of the language and
poetry mute?
they shale out your breathbox? sheaf your tonsils? discontinue
your salty lick?
cows with nothing to chew, cattle aligned for evolution, moo
moo to the moon in holy rapture!
Do not be afraid to embrace new gods, new deitys, for they
will have us submit!
America lying down sweating and tied to the posts of
corporate dirge
do not die for a pension, a cozy cog in minnesota, a murky
mississippi
do not die now our brave sons and men of this 100 years so
fast gone by
we are to remove from ourselves the control or we will be
molded accordingly,
for the intelligence that controls the language and makes
decisions are against us,
America welcome home,
America welcome tomb,
We must hold steadfast and resist,
our America will kill us
in sleep, we shall wake to the death
Welcome home
its been a long dirty drip, we've managed to sit
through the jalopy transfix of your scenic byways,
cut turns into the mountains you lend us purple majesty
and shine shoes for dollar blues and keep traveling,
always another junction through your arteried touch,
your great depression foresight to let us crumble cement,
belly up and frying in the sun, our fish are dying,
our snorkels are run down and we come from here to here,
to meet you in the harbor, to hold you at the docks,
and we walk, we talk or not, but we move through you
we clot
and welcome home New York, welcome home Harlem,
welcome the sun down on your filthy meander in crosstown,
to breathe free as you stand on ancients brown
bookmarks
they lay bare youre shadowed dusty past, lost in done out
buildings,
and everyone wants a bed and breakfast for the tourists, but
they've left
and we reach into our contained bone lockers, pull out some
chairs,
and everyone can't wait for New York to clean up the north of
86,
where we hold free of a neo-zion hold on our souls,
camouflaged,
where we can live to walk over bridges held up in atlas poet,
and make it out of its walls unburied under the library
undone not!
And welcome my weary southerners who in the tar pit of coast
mingle now with the dead odes of the smiling sea turtles,
we hold this shell upsidedown and forever see its dead faded
glory
on to the afterlife for the soil, the rippled peaks of surf
the grown in swamp of fishing reel, the poor jobless empty
towns,
and you ask how they do not crack, and we arrive pipe and oil!
And in the consistent industrious melt of sky and orange
plumes fire,
the nightbirds and the howling serpents and phantasmogoria
fly
enravel the whisps of smoke to the bloodied land sick in
plague
and slowly drain and strain the graveyards of this fossil energy
dolphins rebel!
From sea to sea these penniless trespass of neptune gather and
speak,
Welcome home america to your plotting sealife and civil
strife,
for theyve brought us in shackle under race, under inequities
of quest,
and we attacked poor white and black! we attacked oh south
and the coasts!
under constant bombardment of the deemed inevitable
acceptable evolution
as we move farther into the machinations of youre glowing
super speeds,
we move further into the lorca, we move against this
technological upgrade!
shining furious mutants under gods sweet bestow of kindness
we fight
and share all this beautiful land with each other from the peaks
to the valleys
for they have tainted it and we as a people must take it back
for us to join the dolphins, the sacred seaweed
and they whisper in great accord how we shall succeed against
such a machine
and the language is sequestered, the speak is defined, the letter
set,
and if you deceive or disclose elsewise, speak out of defined
rhetoric,
we push pillow case over your face to be painted, discredited
and alone assassinated,
and we send out invitations to the poets in pennslvania, utah
and boise
we write poems about the poems of the past, for we now with
a pen and shaking!
strength we must bow down to and pray for our hiawatha,
our bridges and tomes!
welcome home america to a control of the language and
poetry mute?
they shale out your breathbox? sheaf your tonsils? discontinue
your salty lick?
cows with nothing to chew, cattle aligned for evolution, moo
moo to the moon in holy rapture!
Do not be afraid to embrace new gods, new deitys, for they
will have us submit!
America lying down sweating and tied to the posts of
corporate dirge
do not die for a pension, a cozy cog in minnesota, a murky
mississippi
do not die now our brave sons and men of this 100 years so
fast gone by
we are to remove from ourselves the control or we will be
molded accordingly,
for the intelligence that controls the language and makes
decisions are against us,
America welcome home,
America welcome tomb,
We must hold steadfast and resist,
our America will kill us
in sleep, we shall wake to the death
Welcome home
