1







I am a great American



I am almost nationalistic about it!



I love America like a madness!



But I am afraid to return to America



I’m even afraid to go into the American Express—











2







They are frankensteining Christ in America



in their Sunday campaigns



They are putting the fear of Christ in America



under their tents in their Sunday campaigns



They are driving old ladies mad with Christ in America



They are televising the gift of healing and the fear of hell



in America under their tents in their Sunday



campaigns



They are leaving their tents and are bringing their Christ



to the stadiums of America in their Sunday



campaigns



They are asking for a full house an all get out



for their Christ in the stadiums of America



They are getting them in their Sunday and Saturday



campaigns



They are asking them to come forward and fall on their



knees



because they are all guilty and they are coming



forward



in guilt and are falling on their knees weeping their



guilt



begging to be saved O Lord O Lord in their Monday



Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday



and Sunday campaigns











3







It is a time in which no man is extremely wondrous



It is a time in which rock stupidity



outsteps the 5th Column as the sole enemy in America



It is a time in which ignorance is a good Ameri-cun



ignorance is excused only where it is so



it is not so in America



Man is not guilty Christ is not to be feared



I am telling you the American Way is a hideous monster



eating Christ making Him into Oreos and Dr. Pepper



the sacrament of its foul mouth



I am telling you the devil is impersonating Christ in America



America’s educators & preachers are the mental-dictators



of false intelligence they will not allow America



to be smart



they will only allow death to make America smart



Educators & communicators are the lackeys of the



American Way



They enslave the minds of the young



and the young are willing slaves (but not for long)



because who is to doubt the American Way



is not the way?



The duty of these educators is no different



than the duty of a factory foreman



Replica production make all the young think alike



dress alike believe alike do alike



Togetherness this is the American Way



The few great educators in America are weak & helpless



They abide and so uphold the American Way



Wars have seen such men they who despised things about



them



but did nothing and they are the most dangerous



Dangerous because their intelligence is not denied



and so give faith to the young



who rightfully believe in their intelligence



Smoke this cigarette doctors smoke this cigarette



and doctors know







Educators know but they dare not speak their know



The victory that is man is made sad in this fix



Youth can only know the victory of being born



all else is stemmed until death be the final victory



and a merciful one at that



If America falls it will be the blame of its educators



preachers communicators alike



America today is America’s greatest threat



We are old when we are young



America is always new the world is always new



The meaning of the world is birth not death



Growth gone in the wrong direction



The true direction grows ever young



In this direction what grows grows old



A strange mistake a strange and sad mistake



for it has grown into an old thing



while all else around it is new



Rockets will not make it any younger—



And what made America decide to grow?



I do not know I can only hold it to the strangeness in man



And America has grown into the American Way—



To be young is to be ever purposeful limitless



To grow is to know limit purposelessness



Each age is a new age



How outrageous it is that something old and sad



from the pre-age incorporates each new age—



Do I say the Declaration of Independence is old?



Yes I say what was good for 1789, is not good for 1960



It was right and new to say all men were created equal



because it was a light then



But today it is tragic to say it



today it should be fact—



Man has been on earth a long time



One would think with his mania for growth



he would, by now, have outgrown such things as



constitutions manifestos codes commandments



that he could well live in the world without them



and know instinctively how to live and be



—for what is being but the facility to love?



Was not that the true goal of growth, love?



Was not that Christ?



But man is strange and grows where he will



and chalks it all up to Fate whatever be—



America rings with such strangeness



It has grown into something strange and



the American is good example of this mad growth



The boy man big baby meat



as though the womb were turned backwards



giving birth to an old man



The victory that is man does not allow man



to top off his empirical achievement with death



The Aztecs did it by yanking out young hearts



at the height of their power



The Americans are doing it by feeding their young to the



Way



For it was not the Spaniard who killed the Aztec



but the Aztec who killed the Aztec



Rome is proof Greece is proof all history is proof



Victory does not allow degeneracy



It will not be the Communists will kill America



no but America itself—



The American Way that sad mad process



is not run by any one man or organization



It is a monster born of itself existing of its self



The men who are employed by this monster



are employed unknowingly



They reside in the higher echelons of intelligence



They are the educators the psychiatrists the ministers



the writers the politicians the communicators



the rich the entertainment world



And some follow and sing the Way because they sincerely



believe it to be good



And some believe it holy and become minutemen in it



Some are in it simply to be in



And most are in it for gold



They do not see the Way as monster



They see it as the “Good Life”



What is the Way?



The Way was born out of the American Dream



a nightmare—



The state of Americans today compared to the Americans



of the 18th century proves the nightmare—



Not Franklin not Jefferson who speaks for America today



but strange red-necked men of industry



and the goofs of show business



Bizarre! Frightening! The Mickey Mouse sits on the throne



and Hollywood has a vast supply—



Could grammar school youth seriously look upon



a picture of George Washington and “Herman Borst”



the famous night club comedian together at Valley



Forge?



Old old and decadent gone the dignity



the American sun seems headed for the grave



O that youth might raise it anew!



The future depends solely on the young



The future is the property of the young



What the young know the future will know



What they are and do the future will be and do



What has been done must not be done again



Will the American Way allow this?



No.



I see in every American Express



and in every army center in Europe



I see the same face the same sound of voice



the same clothes the same walk



I see mothers & fathers



no difference among them



Replicas



They not only speak and walk and think alike



they have the same face!



What did this monstrous thing?



What regiments a people so?



How strange is nature’s play on America



Surely were Lincoln alive today



he could never be voted President not with his



looks—



Indeed Americans are babies all in the embrace



of Mama Way



Did not Ike, when he visited the American Embassy in



Paris a year ago, say to the staff—“Everything is fine,



just drink Coca Cola, and everything will be all right.”



This is true, and is on record



Did not American advertising call for TOGETHERNESS?



not orgiasticly like today’s call



nor as means to stem violence



This is true, and is on record.



Are not the army centers in Europe ghettos?



They are, and O how sad how lost!



The PX newsstands are filled with comic books



The army movies are always Doris Day



What makes a people huddle so?



Why can’t they be universal?



Who has smalled them so?



This is serious! I do not mock or hate this



I can only sense some mad vast conspiracy!



Helplessness is all it is!



They are caught caught in the Way—



And those who seek to get out of the Way



can not



The Beats are good example of this



They forsake the Way’s habits



and acquire for themselves their own habits



And they become as distinct and regimented and lost



as the main flow



because the Way has many outlets



like a snake of many tentacles—



There is no getting out of the Way



The only way out is the death of the Way



And what will kill the Way but a new consciousness



Something great and new and wonderful must happen



to free man from this beast



It is a beast we can not see or even understand



For it be the condition of our minds



God how close to science fiction it all seems!



As if some power from another planet



incorporated itself in the minds of us all



It could well be!



For as I live I swear America does not seem like America



to me







Americans are a great people



I ask for some great and wondrous event



that will free them from the Way



and make them a glorious purposeful people once



again



I do not know if that event is due deserved



or even possible



I can only hold that man is the victory of life



And I hold firm to American man







I see standing on the skin of the Way



America to be as proud and victorious as St.



Michael on the neck of the fallen Lucifer—

