American does not know deline; all it knows is being born

[Terrance]

"Je suis ne. Being born. That's all you have to do."

--Paola, V., Pynchon 
In parallel worlds 
I will haunt these States
	with beard bald head 
eyes staring out plane window,
hair hanging in Greyhound bus midnight
leaning over taxicab seat to admonish
an angry cursing driver
hand lifted to calm
his outraged vehicle
that I pass with Green Light of common law.

Common sense, Common Law, common tenderness
& common tranquility
our means in America to control the money munching
war machine, bright lit industry
everywhere digesting forests and excreting soft pyramids
of newsprint, Redwood and Ponderosa patriarchs
silent in meditation murdered & regurgitated as smoke, 
thick dead lives, slick Advertisements
for Gubernatorial big guns
burping napalm Abortion ghosts into America's transcendent Decline. 
America does not know Decline; all it knows is Abortion ghosts rising
from the pipes of lonely smoke stacks fogging up plane windows passing
into 
parallel worlds.  

V. 
Benny & Rachel's discussion of his mother considering abortion. 
Esther's abortion. Owlglass's abortion. Paola's mother (Bad Priest's
advice) considering abortion.  Love & Death in the American World. 

"I wonder if there isn't a parallel world where she decided to have the
abortion, get rid of me, and what's really happening is is that I'm
looking for her so that I can haunt her like a ghost."

--That Prairie, VL, Pynchon 

"He not busy being born has been aborted."

--Ginsberg