Homework by Allen Ginsberg

If only it was so simple as how Alan Ginsberg details how he would clean up the mess we've made of this world. Simply by giving it a spin through the old washing machine. Ginsburg gives a special little plan for each part of the world, in a poem that could be written on the care label of the earth. The author creatively, and with a sardonic dose of sarcasm, details all the things he feels we've destroyed in the planet, through pollution, acid rain, the spoils of war, to the actions of the police. It also gives us a nice ironic twist when you consider the concept that he's using all these man made chemicals and machines, in order to cleanse the world (where is all this pollution draining to?). The poem gives a heavy social statement, but I feel it lends no real advice to the actual cause except pointing out the obvious destruction. I found the poem ironic, sarcastic, and whimsical, but in the end all it really sounds to me is -sarcastic musings from a voice that doesn't feel his poem will have any impact. I feel possibly the impossibility of the idea lends nothing but whimsy to the possibility of reversing our harm to the planet. But if only it was so simple, Id suggest just dropping it off at my dry cleaner. They can get anything out!