Who Runs America? Oil brown smog over Denver Oil red dung colored smoke level to level across the horizon blue tainted sky above Oil car smog gasoline hazing red Denver's day December bare trees sticking up from houstop streets Plane lands rumbling, plane rise over radar wheels, black smoke drifts from tailfins Oil millions of cars speeding the cracked plains Oil from Texas, Bahrein, Venezuela Mexico Oil that turns General Motors revs up Fords lights up General Electric, oil that crackles thru International Business Machine computers charges dynamos for ITT sparks Western Electric runs thru Amer Telephone & Telegraph wires Oil that flows thru Exxon New Jersey hoses, rings in Mobil gas tank cranks, rumbles Chrysler engines shoots thru Texaco pipelines blackens ocean from broken Gulf tankers spills onto Santa Barbara beaches from Standard of California derricks offshore. Allen Ginsberg December 3, 1974