Sam Blowsnake, "Peyote Vision," trans. Jerome Rothenberg from a trans. by Paul Radin

            tried drinking coffee

                        i would spill it

            sleeping

would see great snakes

                        would cry out & get up

                        raise my cover & look around

                        had someone called me?

when the wind blew

                                    i heard singing

            people were spitting

            loudly i couldn’t sleep

would see things happening in a distant country

ghosts on horseback drunk

five or six of them were on one horse

the song they sang was

“even i

                        gotta die

                                                bye & bye

            so what’s the use of anything

                                    I think”

later we used to sing it as a drinking song

lots of times