<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342368" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>War Profit Litany</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Ezra Pound</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the names of the companies that have made<br>money from this war<br>nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand<br>eighty Hebraic<br>These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan-<br>dising skinburning phosphorous or shells fragmented<br>to thousands of fleshpiercing needles<br>and here listed money millions gained by each combine for<br>manufacture<br>and here are gains numbered, index'd swelling a decade, set<br>in order,<br>here named the Fathers in office in these industries, tele-<br>phones directing finance,<br>names of directors, makers of fates, and the names of the <br>stockholders of these destined Aggregates,<br>and here are the names of their ambassadors to the Capital,<br>representatives to legislature, those who sit drinking<br>in hotel lobbies to persuade,<br>and separate listed, those who drop Amphetamine with<br>military, gossip, argue, and persuade<br>suggesting policy naming language proposing strategy, this<br>done for fee as ambassadors to Pentagon, consul-<br>tants to military, paid by their industry:<br>and these are the names of the generals & captains mili-<br>tary, who know thus work for war goods manufactur-<br>ers;<br>and above these, listed, the names of the banks, combines,<br>investment trusts that control these industries:<br>and these are the names of the newspapers owned by these<br>banks<br>and these are the names of the airstations owned by these<br>combines;<br>and these are the numbers of thousands of citizens em-<br>ployed by these businesses named;<br>and the beginning of this accounting is 1958 and the end<br>1968, that static be contained in orderly mind,<br>coherent and definite,<br>and the first form of this litany begun first day December<br>1967 furthers this poem of these States.</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=342368" data-title="War Profit Litany de Allen Ginsberg" data-description="To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand eighty Hebraic These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan- dising skinburning phosphorous or shel..."></div> </div> </div>

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