The $20.00 Poem

by G.G. Allin
March 2, 1987 - Manchester, New Hampshire

Angry! Angry! Angry!

Mouths are wide open, mouths licking the floor.

Licking the floor!

Mouths licking the floor I take notes.

Pour Pepsi onto thy dry wounds.

Again!

So long baby, so long Tommy J.

I glide on other rails.

Goodbye to easy, on my way to the place.

What!

The plan.

The plan is of course to stay in heaven and call everyone I know on the telephone.

Talk about wireless.

Wireless!

This is where movie begins.

Well, by the stars and the celluloid sky

Collapsing a million miles apart.

I hope you're happy now!

Poets, later on the $20.00 poem,

I meet Steve, who is looking for anybody.

Even me.

Together our eyes feel pain.

From a boat and boil oceans

Because we believe they can.

It's no trick man.

The earth is a perfume suitcase.

A perfume suitcase!

That brings me down.

A hair of darkness caught in my throat and you.

Well wasn't the body a treasure to spend.

Right!

A body to spend.

Spit in my face motherfucker.

Together we see more.

Carry the fall that extends our dreams behind our brilliant eyes.

We are the free for those who see us.

We bring light into the woods.

Into the fuckin' woods.

Into the woods!

Woods! Woods! Woods!

Into the Woods!

This poem was transcribed from a video in which G.G. Allin reads the $20.00 poem. Therefore, line arrangements and punctuation may be subject to argument. G.G. Allin reads this poem while punching and slapping a man who is tied to a tree. G.G. Allin urinates on this man and proceeds to play with his own penis throughout the poem, occasionally stopping to punch or spit on the man tied to the tree.

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The $20.00 Poem

by G.G. Allin March 2, 1987 - Manchester, New Hampshire

by G.G. Allin
March 2, 1987 - Manchester, New Hampshire