Excerpt from "Who Will Take Over the Universe"
The ghost of John F. Dulles hangs
over America like dirty linen
draped over the wintery red sunset,
Fumes of Unconscious Gas
emanate from his corpse
& hypnotize the Egyptian intellectuals —
He grinds his teeth in horror & crosses his
thigh bones over his skull
Dust flows out of his asshole
his hands are full of bacteria
The worm is at his eye —
He’s declaring counterrevolutions in
the Worm-world,
my cat threw him up last
Thursday.
& Forrestal flew out his window like an Eagle —
America’s spending money to overthrow the Man.
Who are the rulers of the earth?
-Allen Ginsberg January 6, 1961
