A Coney Island of the Mind

In Goya's Greatest Scenes Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see

                                         the people of the world

      exactly at the moment when

            they first attained the title of

                                            'suffering humanity'

         They writhe upon the page

                             in a veritable rage

                                             of adversity

          Heaped up

                 groaning with babies and bayonets

                                        under cement skies

           in an abstract landscape of blasted trees

               bent statues bats wings and beaks

                        slippery gibbets

               cadavers and carnivorous cocks

            and all the final hollering monsters

                of the

                      'imagination of disaster'

          they are so bloody real

                           it is as if they really still existed

       And they do

                Only the landscape is changed

   They still are ranged along the roads

        plagued by legionaries

                        false windmills and demented roosters

   

We are the same people

                        only further from home

   on freeways fifty lanes wide

                   on a concrete continent

                    spaced with bland billboards

              illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness

       The scene shows fewer tumbrils

                       but more strung-out citizens

                                       in painted cars

       and they have strange license plates

  and engines

             that devour America

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