Flash!! Poetry Is Revolution!!

Flash!! POETRY IS REVOLUTION!!

TO DOUG PALMER

don 't hold

back, let the

form flow out, let

the song

reach

for its

cadence,

gather the

resonance we

listen for

uncharted

flight weaves

its own streamers--

we'll follow their

lights in

the shaping

silence

come clean

with the

words, lay

low the old

imprecations

that buzz and

click in

our heads these

unkind days

don't lock

step, push

for the ease

you need at the mind's

growing place,

largeness

of spirit,

a billowing

within

D.R. Hazelton

Dear Mr. President:

There is no bomb in Gilead.

The Red Chinese are not Red Indians .

You could have saved the Sioux.

Please stop them building roads

In the North Cascades.

There were great white birds

In the tops of the banyan trees

Calling across the town

When I was in Saigon .

Gary Snyder

Dear Mr. President,

Love & Poetry

Win--forever:

War is always

A great big lose.

I am a poet &

A lover & a winner--

How about you?

Philip Whalen

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #6

avoid the folk.

who find Bonnie and Clyde to violent

who sec the blood but not the energy

form

they love us and want us to practice

birth control

they love us and want the Hindus

to kill their cows

they love us and have a colorless

tasteIess powder which is the perfect

synthetic food . . .

Diane Di Prima