Peter Orlovsky

America, Give A Shit!

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الترجمات: الألمانية (Amerika, Scheiss drauf!)

America, Give A Shit!
New York City – Get Your Shit Together

You have to sit & think this thing out Peter –
How maney pounds does my city shit & piss a day?
How do we scoop it all up – collected?
& composted & brought back to farms
                                       whear it belongs all along.
It’s a great job & my pay is human manure,
               I want a hundread pounds an hour
               because I’m a hard worker,
               or should I ask for more?
Always wanted to dig with a shuvel
                        in frunt our East Side Manhattan apt.
I know worm droppings are 15 dollars a pound.
I’ll have to go study cities sewage blue prints
& dream of vacuum-flush toilets.
Remembering Allen & me walking to East River
                                                           around 17th Street
& there we saw the sewage flow about 2 feet deep
out 6 foot diameter tunnel
slowely moveing melting into East River.
What interesting surprise brown flow discovery,
            on its way to East Rivers garden floor.
Even cows dont throw away their plop
                                   but let it drop
                        near many eating pasture spots
                        & next year dung turns into better green
                                                           grass than before.
Organic Gardening Magazine gets excited about reporting
China’s engenuity in recycling 99% of the human manure
            of Shanghai’s 14 million population
while Chinese farm girls in the field sing
                                       odes to human dung
while raking more dried human manure
into the ground under persimmon fruit trees
as their babies sit nearby on the ground looking up
                at the clear blue sky
listening to mama’s human fertilizer song.

1977 NYC

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اللغة: الألمانية

Amerika, Scheiss drauf!
New York City – Krieg Deinen Scheiß Geregelt

Setz dich & denk das mal zu Ende, Peter –
Welche Mengen scheißt & pisst meine Stadt jeden Tag?
Wie kriegen wir das zusammengeschaufelt – gesammelt?
& kompostiert & zurück auf die Bauernhöfe gebracht
                                               wohin es schon immer gehört.
Ist ’n großartiger Job & mein Lohn ist menschlicher Dung,
            ich will in einer Stunde hundert Pfund
            denn ich bin ’n krasser Arbeiter,
            oder soll ich mehr verlangen?
Wollte schon immer mit ’ner Schaufel vor unserm
East Side Manhattan App. graben
ich weiß, warme Fäkalien bringen 15 Dollar das Pfund.
Ich werd die städtischen Entwässerungspläne studieren müssen
& von Klos mit Vakuum-Spülung träumen.
Erinnere mich, wie Allen & ich zum East River liefen
                                                                       bei der 17th Street
& wo wir die Abwässer etwa 2 Fuß tief
aus einem Tunnel von 6 Fuß Durchmesser fließen sahen
die langsam mit dem East River verschmolzen.
Was für ein spannender, erstaunlicher Anblick braunen
Breis auf dem Weg in die East-River-Gartengeschosse.
Selbst Kühe werfen ihre Fladen nicht weg
                                    sondern lassen sie plumpsen
                        nah am Fressen aufm Weideflächeneck
                        & machen das Gras im nächsten Jahr
                                                           grüner als zuvor.
Die Organic Gardening berichtet begeistert
von Chinas Erfindungsgeist, wo 99% menschlichen Düngers
            der 14 Mio. Einwohner Shanghais recycelt werden
derweil chinesische Bauernmädels auf dem Feld Oden
                                   auf den menschlichen Dünger singen
derweil mehr getrockneter menschlicher Dung
in den Erdboden unter den Kakibäumen eingebracht wird
wenn ihre Kleinen in der Nähe auf dem Boden hocken
                        in den heiteren Himmel blicken
um Mamas Lied vom menschlichen Dünger zu lauschen.

NYC, 1977

Peter Orlovsky

Foto © Taken by Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco, Spring 1955 – courtesy Allen Ginsberg LLC.

* 08.07.1933, New York City, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
† 30.05.2010, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية

Peter Orlovsky was born in 1933 to Oleg Orlovsky, a Russian immigrant, and his wife Katherine (née Schwarten), an aspiring writer, on Manhattan's Lower Eastside. He grew up in precarious circumstances in Northport on Long Island. The family had many children but was poor, and his childhood was marked by neglect and social decline. Some of his four siblings were seriously mentally ill and addicted to drugs, and he also struggled with alcohol and hard drugs throughout his life. To earn extra money, he worked early on as an orderly in a Queens psychiatric hospital, cramming for his high school diploma during night shifts.
During the Korean War, he was a medic in San Francisco and there, in 1954, he met Allen Ginsberg, who immediately fell in love with Orlovsky. The two lived in an open relationship until Ginsberg's death in 1997, mostly in New York; extensive travel took them to Europe and North Africa as far as India and Pakistan.
Ginsberg encouraged Orlovsky to write poetry in 1957, when they were living in Paris. First published in 1960 in the authoritative anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960, he persisted in writing until he was able to publish Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, his most important volume, with City Lights Books in San Francisco in 1978.

Foto © Taken by Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco, Spring 1955 – courtesy Allen Ginsberg LLC.

Beginning in 1970, Orlovsky tried farming for a few years on a farm Allen Ginsberg had bought in upstate New York, devoting himself to organic farming, communal living, and writing. Four years later, he joined the faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, offering, among other things, a course called "Poetry for Stupid Students." For several years he remained one of its key members, teaching young people how to read and write poetry. In 1979 he received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

He is the author of several books of poetry, including Dear Allen: Ship Will Land Jan 23, 58 (1971), Lepers Cry (1972), Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs (1978), and Straight Heart's Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters (with Allen Ginsberg) (1980). In addition, he was active as a singer and actor, including in 'Renaldo and Clara' (1978), 'Chappaqua' (1966) and 'Me and My Brother' (1969).

On May 30, 2010, Peter Orlovsky died of lung cancer diagnosed only a few months earlier.

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