P O E T S     ON THE LINE
a continuing anthology

Founded by Andrew Gettler & Linda Lerner

NO. 9 & 10         T H E  M I L L E N N I U M  I S S U E

Edited by Linda Lerner


HERSCHEL SILVERMAN

5/14/98 N.Y.C
St. John The Divine Cathedral Doings For Allen Ginsberg
110th St. Upper Broadway N.Y.C.
a huge white mobile media truck
twice the size of westward ho
pioneer covered wagons in cowboy movies
many men hauling electric cables
utility vehicles in support
roped-off areas patrolled by walky-talky police
and wooden horses
thousands of young people making scene
come to gape to celebrate TV Seinfeld network exit
with wires wires wires wires
weird world wiring products into American mind
Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld
American national channeled 90's legacy

O WHERE IS KRISHNA     this nite

what is it America seeks

2 blocks away in St. John's Divine Cathedral
Bob Rosenthal Ed Sanders Natalie Merchant
mega mega mega Anne Waldman & Philip Glass
celebrate Allen Ginsberg
Patti Smith prostrate with clarinet
screeching howling for Allen Ginsberg
and chants and rocks and jives
and drives and sings crying wanting to dance
and nearly 3,000 souls rise to rock the place
release personal spiritual energy into the all
into Cathedral belly, and hi-charged Andy Clausen bardic singing
and sweet-singing Steven Taylor on Allen's red harmonium
singing Blake while Eliot Katz shares great social concern
and the Fugs     the Fugs     the Fugs
Ed Sanders Tuli Kupferberg Steven Taylor
Scott Petito Coby Batty just Fugging around
and a voice heard at beginning
said Seinfeld was about Nothing, Ginsberg about Everything
O hard krishna hare Rama Rama Rama Krishna krishna
in which place were you this nite


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