A poem titled for one of these things ends by imagining its offspring “wrapped in ermine” and sitting “plunk on earth’s grumpy empires / fierce with mustaches of gold.” A 24,000-year “Great Day” inspired a Gnostic poem titled for a component of these things that calls for a “Canker-Hex on multitudes learned or illiterate.” A line from “Howl” mentions people “who distributed Supercommunist pamphlets in Union Square” while the “sirens” of the place that made the first of these things “wailed them down.” This thing is called the “budger of history” and the “brake of time” (15[1])in a concrete poem by (15[2])(*) Gregory Corso. (10[4])After (10[2])opening (10[1])“I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing,” a 1956 poem tells America to “fuck yourself” with this (10[1])thing. (10[1])For 10 points, what destructive objects are opposed in Allen Ginsberg’s “Plutonian Ode?” ■END■