I Am A Victim Of Telephone chords by Allen Ginsberg

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Verse 1
D 
 (D major) I'm a victim of telephone.
E 
 (E major) When I lay down to sleep,
D 
 (D major) dream the wishing well, it rings.
Have you a new play
E 
 (E major) for the broken down theater?
When I write in my notebook
D 
 (D major) poem, it rings.
Buster Keaton's under the Brooklyn Bridge
on Frankfort and Pearl.
E 
 (E major) When I unsheathe my skin,
extend my cock towards someone's thighs,
D 
fat or thin, boy or girl, ting  (D major) -a -ling,
please get him out of jail,
C 
G 
the police  (C major) are crashing down.  (G major) 
D 
E 
 (D major) When I lift the  (E major) soup spoon to my lips,
the phone on the floor begins purring.
Hello, it's me.
I'm in the park with two
D 
 (D major) bros from Iowa.
E 
Nowhere to  (E major) sleep last night.
D 
 (D major) Hit him in the mouth.
E 
When I'm  (E major) mused at smoke
D 
crawling over the  (D major) roof
outside my street window
purifying eternity
with my eye observation
of gray vaporous columns in the sky.
E 
Ring ring.  (E major) Hello. This is
Esquire.
D 
Be a dear and finish your  (D major) political
commitment manifesto.
When I listen to radio presidents
roaring on the convention floor,
E 
the phone  (E major) also chimes in.
G 
Rush up  (G major) to Harlem with us
D 
 (D major) and see the riots.
E 
D 
Always  (E major) a telephone linked to all the  (D major) hearts of the world beating at once,
E 
D 
 (E major) crying, my  (D major) husband's gone,
E 
my boyfriend's  (E major) busted forever,
my poetry was rejected,
won't you come over for money and
please
D 
 (D major) won't you write me a piece of bullshit,
how are you dear,
E 
can you come to  (E major) East Hampton,
D 
we're  (D major) all here bathing in the ocean,
we're all so lonely,
and I laid down back on my palate
E 
contemplating a 50 phone  (E major) bill,
broke, drowsy, anxious,
D 
 (D major) my heart fearful
E 
of the fingers dialing, the  (E major) death,
D 
the  (D major) singing of the telephone bells,
ringing at dawn,
D 
 (D major) ringing all afternoon,
ringing up midnight,
ringing now forever.