after Allen Ginsberg

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Andy Warhol I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
2,358,695 souls February 2, 2007.
I can't stand my own Renaissance.
Warhol when will we end the culture wars?
Screw you with your tomato soup can!
I'm shifting into healthcare and financial services -- don't bother me.
No more picture postcards till Renaissance III.
Warhol when will you be straight with me?
When will you take off that blasphemous wig?
When will you be worthy of my million yinzers?
Why are my libraries full of coeds from New Jersey?
Why feed me steel and oranges that come all the way from China?
I'm sick of your pansy demands. Show me the money!
When can I go to Congress and win subsidies with my good looks?
After all Warhol it is you who are the superstar even in the afterlife.
Am I the Congregation for the Causes of Saints?
Your Factory overwhelms me.
Anti-dumping tariffs are only one part of my competitive strategy.
There must be some other way to settle our dispute.
Carnegie's in hell I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.
Are you being sinister? Or is this just another practical joke?
Come Lent thou shalt relinquish thy vanity mirror.
Tell me Andy am I East Coast? This ain't Cleveland.
I yam what I yam and that's all I yam -- my idiom of rugged individualism.
Andy the Adopt-A-Bus program is failing.
Andy I don't read the papers anymore -- every day a drive-by shooting.
Andy I feel sentimental about the Homestead Strike.
Andy I was a Catholic Worker as a kid and I'm not sorry.
I sit on Mount Washington for days on end and stare at my bridges.
You should see me at Tuesday Book Club reading Jung.
My Visitors Bureau thinks I'm perfect.
I refuse to gerrymander my 18th Congressional District.
My fourth river is cosmically vibrating.
I lost my jobs to India and all I got is this lousy T-shirt.
Andy Warhol I've fallen and I can't get up.

Whatsamatta you Andrej Warhola?
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by People magazine?
I obsess over People.
I read it in the bowels of Carnegie Public Library.
It's always about celebrities 'n' at. Film celebs. Rock celebs. Everyone's celeb but me.
It occurs to me that I am Andy Warhol.

The Sun Belt is rising against me.
I must consider my natural resources.
My natural resources consist of 10,000 hills and 446 bridges and one bronze statue of Roberto Clemente.
Watchman, what of the price of scrap metal?
I say nothing of my think tanks nor my robots of Carnegie Mellon toiling de doo-da day under the sprightly muzak of Stephen Foster.
I have abolished the brothels of the North Side.
My ambition is to be capital city despite that I'm a Catholic.

Warhol how can I write a holy litany to your vacuous mop?
Warhol I'll sell you wigs! $500 apiece -- $50 down on your old wig.
Warhol free Edie Sedgwick.
Warhol just say no to amphetamines.
Warhol give Valerie Solanis reason not to squeeze the trigger.
Warhol I hate to be nebby but you're acting like a jag-off.
Warhol when I was seven Mum took me to Seminary Days at Sts. Cyril & Methodius when you visited your nephew there we prayed for vocations and the bubbas sold us cabbage rolls and the novenas held out promise everyone was angelic and sentimental about our Holy Mother the Church behind the Iron Curtain.
Still making movies Andy Warhol? Screen-test me Andy Warhol!
You loved me in "The Deer Hunter." You like my "Groundhog Day"?
Here's the pitch: "The Twilight Zone" meets "It's a Wonderful Life" meets Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel."
It occurs to me I relive February 2nd over and over.
Welcome home Warhol it's the standard-issue flowered grave.
Sonny and Cher "I Got You Babe" clock radio 6 A.M.
Smash the radio kick the radio they won't shut up.
Heaven help us Andy Warhol.
Andy Warhol this is quite serious.
Andy Warhol this is the impression I get from looking in the television.
Andy Warhol I want to live again.
Please Andy Warhol I want to live again.
Zoom in: the icy bridge. Cue the snow falling.
Whaddaya know Andy Warhol my lip's bleeding!
Zuzu's petals? Zuzu's petals!
Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
That's right Andy Warhol that's right.
Put your queer shoulder to the rope and ring the holy bells.
Attaboy Andy Warhol attaboy!

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