Vomit Express Songtext
von Allen Ginsberg

I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
You can take an ancient vacation
Fly over Florida's deep blue end
Rise up out of this madhouse nation
I′m going down with my oldest tender friend
I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
We know each other now twenty years
Seen murders and we wept tears
Now we′re going to take ourselves a little bit of free time
Wandering round the Southern poverty climb
I'm going down to Puerto Rico
I′m going down on the midnight plane
I'm going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain


Start flying with those poor old sick ladies
Everybody in the plane drowded, drunk and they′re crazy
Flying home to die in the wobbly air
All night long they wanted the cheapest fare
I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
Land there, dawn on the airfield, I′ve never been there
Except once walking around the airfield in the great wet heat
Walk out and smell that old motherlode of shit from the tropics
Stomach growl love, oh friends beware
I'm going down to Puerto Rico
I′m going down on the midnight plane
I'm going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
Me and my friend, no, we won′t even drink
And I won′t eat meat, I won't fuck around
Gonna walk the streets alone, cars all blink and wink
Taxis, buses and US gas all around
I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
Start with poetry at the university, meet kids
Look at their breasts, touch their hands, kiss their heads
Sing from the heart maybe the four Buddhist noble truths
Existence is suffering, it ends when you′re dead
I'm going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I′m going down with my suitcase pain
Go out, walk up on the mountain, see the green rain
Imagine that forest, vines get lost
Sit cross-legged and meditate on old love pain
Watch every old love turn to gauze
I'm going down to Puerto Rico
I′m going down on the midnight plane
I'm going down on the vomit express
I′m going down with my suitcase pain
See raindrops in the jungle, rainbows, ants and men
Brown legs walk around on the mud road
Far from US smog war again
Sit down empty mind, vomit my holy load
I'm going down to Puerto Rico
I′m going down on the midnight plane
I'm going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
Come back to Earth, walk the streets in shock
Smoke some grass and eat me some cock
Kiss the mouth of the sweetest boy I can see
Who shows me his white teeth and brown skin joy
I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I′m going down on the midnight plane
I'm going down on the vomit express
I′m going down with my suitcase pain
Go find my old friend, we'll go to the museum
Talk about politics with the cats and ask for revolution
Get back on the plane and chant "High in the sky"
Back to Earth, to New York garbage streets and fly
I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain
I'm gonna come back with frightens in the heart
And New York′s electrical eternity here
Pull the air conditioner plug from the wall
Sit down with my straight spine and pray
I′m going down to Puerto Rico
I'm going down on the midnight plane
I′m going down on the vomit express
I'm going down with my suitcase pain