Hypodermic Light
by Philip Lamantia

included in Destroyed Works (1962):

That the total hatred wants to annihilate me!

it’s the sickness of american pus against which I’m hallucinated

I’m sick of language

I want this wall I see under my eyes break up and shatter you

I’m talking all the poems after God

I want the table of visions to send me oriole opium

A state of siege

It’s possible to live directly from elementals!

hell stamps out

vegetable spirits, zombies attack heaven! the marvelous put

down by martial law, America fucked by a stick of marijuana

paper money larded for frying corpses!

Here comes the Gorgon! There’s the outhouse!

Come up from dead things, anus of the sun!