Wolfman
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Jack Ramey reads Wolfman.
No savage fit of barking Orpheus lies daggered in Mecca’s And the calm dusty breasts of Helen It is apparent Melting to a solid chemistry Mother!——–Luna divina!
Will bring back the kiss of Eurydice.
Hashish clouded streets
No longer sweat for the heat of cold Paris.
——————–(from space-walk
——————–from gaunt moon-shot)
That her old transparency is fading
Before a billion bloodshot eyes :
————————————–Grab me
Hunt me down
——————–in your last mad seconds
Uplift me!
—————–scatter me!
————————————do not fade alone.
After hitchhiking across the country with my old road buddy, Dan Miller, we landed in the mecca of flower power, Haight Ashbury, on July 20, 1969. That evening we sat around a small black and white television set with a few new friends and watched as Astronauts bounced around on the surface of the moon. Unlike most Americans, I was horrified. The moon to me was sacred, a goddess, Diana/Artemis, the tripartite virgin huntress of the skies, the Triple Goddess of poetic inspiration. As I watched the Death of Myth, the triumph of technology and science over ancient pagan Earth Religion, this poem surfaced as a howl of protest against the blasphemy of techno-hegemony.
Featured Photo: Astranaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon, July 20, 1969.
By Neil Armstrong via Wikimedia Commons.