A Vast Confusion

"Long long I lay in the sands

Sounds of trains in the surf

in subways of the sea

And an even greater undersound

of a vast confusion in the universe

a rumbling and a roaring

as of some enormous creature turning

under sea and earth

a billion sotto voices murmuring

a vast muttering

a swelling stuttering

in ocean's speakers

world's voice-box heard with ear to sand

a shocked echoing

a shocking shouting

of all life's voices lost in night

And the tape of it

someow running backwards now

through the Moog Synthesizer of time

Chaos unscrambled

back to the first

harmonies

And the first light"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Who Are We Now? (?),1976 (?)