"Heat" and "Giddy Yap" (Two poems)

Heat

(The :)

Sky is covered with heat
Day is covered with heat
Night is covered with heat
Devils are covered with heat
Unconsciousness covered with heat
Thoughts covered with heat
Life and death covered with heat
Heat is covered with heat
Lovers covered with heat
Murders covered with heat
Hugo Chavez covered with heat
Castro covered with heat
Governments covered with heat
Wars are covered with heat
Starvation is covered with heat
News reports are all covered with heat
Money is covered it heat

Where is the cool air?
Some place underneath all this heat
Screaming to be released
But tyrants on earth
With their words, they cover
Everything with heat
While pulling mankind into
deceit…!

#2314 (3-8-2008)



Giddy yap
(A poem for Allen Ginsberg: a benediction for the human race)

Allen Ginsberg wrote only a few poems before he died, which was perhaps for the better of mankind. Matter of fact, his last poem was on March 30th 1997, a week before his death (he died April 5, of the same year). On March 24th he wrote “Giddy-yap giddy yap giddy yap shut up.” This basically was all he had to say in the six line poem, giddy yap and shut up. Not a very intriguing poem to say the least. But what was he saying? In many of my studies with people dying, in psychology, working with the aging folks, I looked at this odd behavior many times; so what was he really saying? We all interpret things the way we want, yet there is a pattern if you study his last writings, and so here is my interpretation of those almost final words, during his final two weeks of his life:

I think he was running from the devil (during his last days, for he inferred this, he tried to be an agnostic, but he was really an atheist, who was angry at God, and he never gave God an inch, just insults; he even implied he was going to hell, and his lustful desires were contributed to the American way of life, which he grabbed onto, yet ridiculed. But as I was saying he was being chased, he was running from the demon whom came for him (for he was a man of letters, he wrote what he lived); these demon wanted to drag him down to the underworld with them, his hours were few, and his horse he kept saying ‘giddy yap’ with was his running, and when they were side by side, he told the death to shut up, and death said, “I never get tired, I can wait another hour” and the horse and Allen keep going, and going and going, until there was no more giddy yap left, and death was then on top of him, like a vulture to a corpse.

#2313 (3-8-2008)