10 OCTOBER 1970, page 25

Episode From A Fortnight In Hell

On the thirteenth day a tiny silver snail with a sword through its neck screams on a rock. Armies quiver and lunge like porcupines. Dinosaurs, or perhaps camels, mount a hill......

Strassenbahn

Gut-squeal. I hear it all night in my dream. Between rails and wire, it worries through the Ring-circuit like a rat in a maze. No wonder it squeals. Gas-worm. Eating its way out......

Written On The Road Of Cemeteries Leading To The Airport

at Vienna I see American poetry with red claws conquering the world. It makes a Vietnam in the Pushkin industry. It calls the sonnet Robert Bly. Somewhere under the fingers of......

The Auschwitz Rag

It's a gas, going to the gas, going to the gas, it's a gas, Man, going to the gas I walk on tip-toe To the Zyklon B. They're goin' to crucify Little me. Up ahead Stick men in......

Die Namenlosen

One with a bugle, slash of gold, over his shoulder. •••■■• The rest, grey gums. They gnash forward, swine's-flesh, into rancid_meat. Only, this was the first war. They oar in......