For Allen Ginsberg, on His 100th Birthday (3 June 1926 – 3 June 2026)
Dear Allen, as you foresaw, we are living in a Fallen America.
Masked Fed ICE gangs raid blue state cities at will, filming it all:
Kustoms enforcers, licensed to kill, rampage thru American streets,
Gangland arm of the mammon-obsessed, unitary executioner,
Mocking the law, pepper spraying the Constitution in the face.
A Squatter King’s words not worth the texts they’re printed on,
The counterfeit award machinery never stops its self-
aggrandizement.
Crybaby Wars, known in the bars as “retribution roulette,” will
fail.
I know you hear America’s fatal shrieks & agonies, Allen, & those
Goons who break their backs lifting Moloch to fake Heaven.
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