Who Be Kind To
Who Be Kind To

Who Be Kind To easy guitar chords by Allen Ginsberg

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  • Verse 1
    Who 
    be kind 
    to? 

    Who be 
    kind to? 

    Be 
    kind to 
    yourself, 
    only one, 

    and perishable 
    of many on 
    the planet. 

    Thou 
    art that 
    one that wishes 

    a soft 
    finger 

    tracing 
    the line 
    of 
    feel

    ing from 
    nipple to 
    pubis. 

    One 
    that 
    wishes a tongue 

    to kiss your 
    armpit, 

    lip to kiss 
    your cheek 

    inside 
    your 
    white
    ness 
    thigh 

    Be 
    kind 
    to yourself, 
    Harry, 

    because 
    unkindness comes 

    when the body explodes 

    Napalm, 
    cancer, and the 
    deathbed in 
    Vietnam is 

    a strange 
    place to 
    dream of trees 
    leaning over 

    and angry 
    American faces 
    grinning 
    with 

    sleepwalk terror 
    over your last 
    eye 

    Be 
    kind to 
    yourself 

    because 
    the 
    bliss 
    of your own 
    kindness 

    will 
    flood 
    the police tomorrow 

    Because the 
    cow weeps 
    in 
    the field 

    and the 
    mouse weeps 
    in the cat 
    hole 

    Be 
    kind 
    to 
    this place 

    which is your present 
    habitation 

    With Derek 
    and radar 
    tower 

    and 
    flower in 
    the ancient 
    brook 

    Be 
    kind 
    to your neighbor 

    who weeps 
    solid tears 

    on the television 
    sofa 

    He 
    has no other home 

    and hears 
    nothing 

    but the 
    hard voice 
    of telephones. 
    Click. 
    Bzzz. 

    Switch channel 
    and the inspired 
    melodrama 

    disappears 
    and he's left 

    alone for the night. 

    He disappears in 
    bed. 

    Be kind to 
    your disappearing 

    mother and father 

    gaz
    ing out 
    the terrace window 

    as milk 
    truck and hearse 
    turn the 
    corner. 

    Be 
    kind 
    to the politician 

    weeping 
    in 
    the galleries 
    of 
    Whitehall, 
    Kremlin, 
    White 
    House
    , Louvre, 
    Phoenix 
    City, 

    aged, 
    large -nosed, 
    angry, 
    nervously 
    dialing 
    the bold 
    voice 
    box 

    connected 
    to electrodes 

    underground 

    converging 
    through 
    wires vaster 

    than a 
    kitten's eye can 
    see on 

    the mushroom 
    -shaped 
    fear lobe 

    under the 
    ear of the 
    sleep
    ing Dr. 
    Einstein, 

    crawling 
    with worms, 

    crawling 
    with worms, 

    crawling with 
    worms. 

    The 
    hour has 
    come. 

    Sick, 
    dissatisfied, 
    unloved, 

    the 
    bulky foreheads 
    of Captain, 
    Premier, 

    President, 
    Sir, 
    Comrade, 
    fear. 

    Be kind 
    to the fearful 
    one at your 

    side 

    who's remembering 

    the lamentations 
    of 
    the Bible 

    and the 
    prophecies of the 
    crucified Adam, 

    son 
    of all the 
    porters 

    and 
    charred men 
    of Belgravi
    a. 

    Be kind 
    to yourself 

    who weep 
    under the 

    Moscow moon 

    and hide your 
    bliss hairs 
    under rain

    coat and 
    suede Levi's, 

    for 
    this is 
    joy to 
    be born. 

    The kindness 
    received 
    through strange 

    eyeglasses 

    on a bus through 
    Kensington, 

    the 
    finger touch 
    of the Londoner 
    on your thumb 

    that 
    borrows 
    light from your 
    cigarette, 

    the smile 
    of morning 
    at Newcastle 

    Central Station 

    when long 
    -haired Tom 
    Blonde husband 

    greets the bearded 
    stranger of 
    telephones, 

    the boom 
    -bom
    b that bounces 

    in the joyful 
    bowels 

    as 
    the Liverpool minstrels 
    of 
    Cavernsink 

    raise 
    up their 
    joyful 
    voices 

    and 
    guitars in 
    electric Afric. 

    Hur
    rah for 
    Jerus
    alem. 

    The saints 
    come marching 
    in. 

    Twist 
    and shout 
    and 
    gates of 
    Eden 

    are 
    named 
    in Albion 
    again. 

    Hope 
    sings a 
    black psalm 
    from Nigeria 

    and 
    a white 
    psalm echoes 
    in Detroit 

    and 
    re -echoes 
    amplified from 

    Nottingham 
    to Prague 

    and a Chinese 
    psalm 
    will 
    be heard 

    if 
    we all live 
    our 
    lives out 

    for the next six 
    decades. 

    Be kind 
    to the Chinese 
    psalm 

    in the red 
    transistor in 
    your breast. 

    Be kind to 
    Monk Thelonious 

    in the five 
    spot 

    who plays 
    lone chord 

    bangs on 
    his vast piano 

    lost 
    in space 
    on a stool 

    and 
    hearing himself 

    in this nightclub 
    universe. 

    Be 
    kind to the 
    heroes 

    who have 
    lost their names 

    in the newspaper 

    And 
    hear 
    only their own 

    supplication 

    for the peaceful 
    kiss of 
    sex 

    in the giant 
    auditoriums 
    of the planet 

    Name
    less 
    voices crying 

    for kindness 

    in the orchestra 

    Screaming 
    in 
    anguish that 
    bliss come 
    true 

    And 
    sparrows 
    sing another 

    hundred years 

    to white -haired 
    babes 

    and 
    poets be 
    fools of 
    their own desire. 

    Oh, 
    Anacreon and 
    Angelic 
    Shelley, 

    guide 
    these new 
    -nippled 
    generations 

    on 
    spaceships 

    to Mars' 
    next universe. 

    The prayer is 
    to man 
    and 
    girl, 

    the only 
    gods, 

    the only 
    lords of 
    kingdoms 
    of feeling, 

    Christs 
    of their own 
    living ribs. 

    Bicycle 
    chain and 
    machine gun, 

    fear, 
    sneer, 
    and smell 
    cold 
    logic 

    of the 
    dream bomb 
    have come 
    to 
    Saigon, 

    Johannesburg, 
    Domin
    ica City, 
    Phnom Penh, 

    Pentagon, 
    Paris, 
    and Lhasa. 

    Ah, 
    be kind 
    to the universe 
    of self 

    that 
    trembles 
    and shudders and thrills 

    in twentieth 
    century, 

    that 
    opens its 
    eyes and belly 
    and breast 

    chained with 
    flesh 

    to feel the 
    myriad flowers 
    of bliss 

    that 
    I am 
    to thee 
    dream, 
    dream. 

    don't want 
    to be alone. 

    I want to 
    know that I am loved. 

    want the 
    orgy of 
    our 
    flesh, 

    orgy 
    of all eyes 
    happy, 

    orgy of the 
    soul 
    kissing 

    and blessing 
    it
    s mortal 
    grown body, 

    orgy of 
    tenderness beneath 
    the neck, 

    orgy 
    of kindness 
    to thigh 
    and vagina. 

    Desire 
    given with 
    meat, 

    hand, and 
    cock. 

    Desire taken 
    with mouth 
    and ass. 

    Desire 
    returned 
    to the last 
    sigh. 

    Be kind 
    to the poor soul 

    that cries in a 
    crack of the pavement 

    because 
    he has no body. 

    Prayers to 
    the ghosts and 
    demons, 

    the 
    lacklustres of 
    capitals and 

    congresses 

    who make sadistic 
    noises on 

    the ra
    dio. 

    ...statue 
    destroyers 
    and 

    tank captains, 

    unhappy 
    murderers 
    in Mekong 

    and Stanleyville. 

    For a 
    new kind 
    of man has 

    come 
    to his 
    bliss. 

    To end 
    the Cold 
    War, 

    he 
    has borne against 
    his own 
    kind 
    flesh 

    since 
    the days 
    of the snake." 

    Thank you. 
    Thank 
    you. 
    Thank 
    you. 


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