Poetry Is Revolution!

POETRY IS REVOLUTION!

Reply to that Pig who scream to LeRoi

UP AGAINST THE WALL, MOTHERFUCKER

--What wall, man?

I don't see no

hear no smell no taste no feel no fuckin

walls, pig! YOU

thinking walls. How 'bout

UP AGAINST THE CEILING, MOTHERFUCKER

White Panthers too: or

SKY

--Diggers: UP AGAINST THE EARTH MOTHER

One hand on old Gaea's crotch and God

sperm all over, small rain down can

FIRE and we grin: radiance and

like that great home movie we jus' gone a

RIDE, motherfucker, ride.

And babe

you better stand back...your

wall come tumblin down gone

CRASH yo ass

pig brother...

Mike Aldrich

30 Dec 68

REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS NO. 29

beware of those

who say we are the beautiful losers

who stand in their long hair and wait to be punished

who weep on beaches for our isolation

we are not alone: we have brothers in all the hills

we have sisters in the jungles and in the ozarks

we even have brothers in the frozen tundra

they sit by their fires, they sing, they gather arms

they multiply: they will reclaim the earth

nowhere we can go but they are waiting for us

no exile where we will not hear welcome home

"goodmorning sister, let me work with you

goodmorning brother, let me

fight by your side"

Diane Di Prima

THE TIME IS NOW

The time is now,

You had better

STOP

boo-ga-looin'

and START the 

Revolution.

Stop this thing called

exploitation

all your doing is

building the devils

expectations

The time is now

Stand up and be the

true man you are

Pick up the gun and pow,

Blown away. Your the

beat by far.

Shoot your shot,

and shoot to kill.

Then drag him off

and have your fill.

Remember this

the only good pig

is a dead pig.

DIG!!

Iris Wyse

from the Black Panther

SELF-DEFENSE IS PREPARATION

AGAINST ATTACK

SELF-DEFENSE IS THE RESPONSE

TO ANY ATTACK

SELF-DEFENSE IS THE REPRISAL

FOR AN ATTACK
--

"TO CREATE AT LONG LAST A

SITUATION WHICH GOES BEYOND

THE POINT OF NO RETURN"

--

"Our program is cultural revolution through a total assault on the culture, which makes use of every tool, every energy and every media we can get our collective hands on"

John Sinclair

Minister of Information

White Panther Party

This is a partial SUGGESTED READING LIST, it will be revised from issue to issue.

Soul on Ice..........Eldridge Cleaver

Guerrilla Warfare..........Che Guevarra

Black Music..........LeRoi Jones

Quotations from Chairman Mao..........Mao Tse-Tung

Nova Express..........William Burroughs

Malcolm Speaks..........Malcolm X

Revolution For the Hell of It..........Abbie Hoffman (this book should be stolen only)

*Strange Odyssey of Howard Pow!..........Bill Hutton

"POWER IS THE ABILITY TO DEFINE PHENOMENA AND MAKE IT ACT IN A DESIRED MANNER."

Huey P. Newton

Minister of Defense

Black Panther Party

In order to define phenomena it is necessary to have correct information. One way to do this is to read the Underground Press. We'd like to suggest some papers that we feel to be very important, and should be read by all. Of course one should read the papers from the immediate community first, and if there is none then one should be started, then papers from other parts of the country.

THE BLACK PANTHER          PO Box 8641, Emeryville Branch, Oakland, California 94608

The Fifth Estate          1107 W. Warren, Detroit, Mich.

The Rat          201 E. Fourth Street, New York, N.Y.

The Berkeley Barb          2886 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, California

EVO          Box 571, Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N.Y.

We have to mention some very important free sheets that come out periodically:

PHAQUE          Box 1952, Gary, Indiana

GUERRILLA          1107 W. Warren, Detroit, Mich.

SUN          1510 Hill, Ann Arbor, Mich.

(These brothers need financial support since their papers are distributed free)

Brother J.C. Crawford, the ROCK OF ZENTA has been fasting and meditating for more than.....a long time, watch for the ZENTA PAPERS to be published in the SUN. soon.

If it ain't dope, and you can't eat it, and you can't dance to it, and you can't fuck it--then piss on it!

Lower East Side Folk Tale

*The Strange Odyssey of Howard Pow can be had by sending $1.00 to AWP/AA, 1510 Hill, Ann Arbor, Mich.