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beat series part three
Budger of history / Brake of time / You / Bomb
So begins Gregory Corso's "Bomb", first published in 1958, at the time of incredible tensions between the two global nuclear superpowers, when the western world was numb with terror at the idea of MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction through nuclear war.
O Bomb I love you
There is a hell for bombs
Toy of universe / Grandest of all snatched sky / I cannot hate you
I want to kiss your clank / eat your boom
You are a paean / an acme of scream
a lyric hat of Mister Thunder
O resound thy tanky knees
They’re there / I see them there
They sit in bits and sing songs
Mostly German songs
And two very long American songs
and they wish there were more songs
especially Russian and Chinese songs
and some more very long American songs