On this day, September 26, 1969…the American poet Allen Ginsberg Death on all fronts
Death on all fronts (English)
“The Planet is Finished”
A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet
Orion’s chased the Immovable Bear halfway across the sky
from winter to winter. I wake, earlier in bed,
fly corpses
cover gas lit sheets, my head aches,
left temple
brain fibre throbbing for Death I created
on all Fronts.
Poisoned rats in the Chickenhouse and myriad lice
Sprayed with white arsenics filtering to the brook,
City
Cockroaches
stomped on Country kitchen floors.
No babies for me.
Cut earth boy & girl hordes
by half & breathe free
say Revolutionary expert Computers:
Half the blue globe’s germ population’s
more than enough
keep the cloudy lung from stinking pneumonia.
I called in the Exterminator Who soaked the Wall
floor with bed-bug death-oil.
Who’ll soak my brain with death-oil?
I wake before dawn dreading my wooden
possessions,
my gnostic books, my loud mouth, old loves silent,
charms
turned to image money, my body sexless fat,
Father dying,
Earth Cities poisoned at war,
my art hopeless —
Mind fragmented–and still abstract–Pain in
left temple living death —
Sept. 26, 1969
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/en/Ginsberg,_Allen-1926/Death_on_all_fronts
Also on this day:
September 26, 1989 – Australian Union body tries to add green to red…
September 26, 1998 – Howard decision only to ratify Kyoto if US does leaks.