Homage to Kenneth Koch <br /> <br /> <br />If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran <br />I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, <br />scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in <br />the jungle, <br />I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib & Gulf of Mexico, <br />Rub that smog off the North Pole, wipe up all the pipelines in Alaska, <br />Rub a dub dub for Rocky Flats and Los Alamos, Flush that sparkly <br />Cesium out of Love Canal <br />Rinse down the Acid Rain over the Parthenon & Sphinx, Drain the Sludge <br />out of the Mediterranean basin & make it azure again, <br />Put some blueing back into the sky over the Rhine, bleach the little <br />Clouds so snow return white as snow, <br />Cleanse the Hudson Thames & Neckar, Drain the Suds out of Lake Erie <br />Then I'd throw big Asia in one giant Load & wash out the blood & <br />Agent Orange, <br />Dump the whole mess of Russia and China in the wringer, squeeze out <br />the tattletail Gray of U.S. Central American police state, <br />& put the planet in the drier & let it sit 20 minutes or an <br />Aeon till it came out clean<br /><br />Allen Ginsberg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/homework/
