<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342366" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Velocity of Money</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows <br>of Lower East Side<br>Delighted by skyscrapers rising the old grungy apartments falling on <br>84th Street<br>Delighted by inflation that drives me out on the street<br>After all what good’s the family farm, why eat turkey by thousands every <br>Thanksgiving?<br>Why not have Star Wars? Why have the same old America?!?<br>George Washington wasn’t good enough! Tom Paine pain in the neck, <br>Whitman what a jerk!<br>I’m delighted by double digit interest rates in the Capitalist world<br>I always was a communist, now we’ll win<br>an usury makes the walls thinner, books thicker & dumber<br>Usury makes my poetry more valuable<br>my manuscripts worth their weight in useless gold -<br>Now everybody’s atheist like me, nothing’s sacred<br>buy and sell your grandmother, eat up old age homes,<br>Peddle babies on the street, pretty boys for sale on Times Square -<br>You can shoot heroin, I can sniff cocaine,<br>macho men can fite on the Nicaraguan border and get paid with paper!<br>The velocity’s what counts as the National Debt gets higher<br>Everybody running after the rising dollar<br>Crowds of joggers down broadway past City Hall on the way to the Fed<br>Nobody reads Dostoyevsky books so they’ll have to give a passing ear <br>to my fragmented ravings in between President’s speeches <br>Nothing’s happening but the collapse of the Economy<br>so I can go back to sleep till the landlord wins his eviction suit in court.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Allen+Ginsberg">Allen Ginsberg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342366" data-title="Velocity of Money de Allen Ginsberg" data-description="I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows of Lower East Side Delighted by skyscrapers rising the old grungy apartments falling on 84th Street Delighted by inflation that drives me out on the street After all wha..."></div> </div> </div>

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