Allen Ginsberg’s “Who Let the Dogs Out”

Who let the dogs out?

Who! Who! Who!

Who undid the cosmic latch of

MAN?

Radiating cool and silver in maniac nights

Perverting the heavy machinery of LAW

Who?

Who released these animals that bark and wag

and fuck and drip

drool from twisted tongues

escaping pens of teeth?

Who! Who! Who!

Who let the dogs out?

Who?

Woof!

Who?

Woof!

What moment of history

was fucked and birthed

this new chaos?

Woof! Who?

Who willed this

furry anarchy?

Who let the dogs out?

The answer! The answer!

Who!

I rummage through

the teeth and fur

to seek, to see

Kibble! Kibble!

They shall eat us alive!

What villain of the good

practiced such evil

upon our chainlink Edens?

Who!

I demand to know!

Who!

The answer!

Woof!

Impossible howling!

Who!

Zenith impossible!

Woof!

Terminal impossible!

We are in the yard now!

We are in the pen!

Who! Who! Who!

Who imprisoned man?

Who replaced the latch?

Who begat this chaos?

Maniac frenzied

Slobbering! Scratching!

WE LICK OUR OWN BALLS!

Who imprisoned man?

Who! Who! Who!

Who let the dogs out?

Who?

Who?

Who?