Revolutionary Letters No. 19 (for The Poor People's Campaign)

REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS NO. 19 (for the Poor People's Campaign)

if what you want is jobs

for everyone, you are still the enemy,

you have not thought thru, clearly

what that means

if what you want is housing,

industry

             (G.E. on the Navaho

              reservation)

a car for everyone, garage, refrigerator,

TV, more plumbing, scientific

freeways, you are still

the enemy, you have chosen

to sacrifice the planet for a few years of some

science fiction utopia, if what you want

still is, or can be, schools

where all our kids are pushed into one shape, are taught

it's better to be ''American" than black

or Indian, or Jap, or PR, where Dick

and Jane become and are the dream, do

look like Dick's father, don't you think your kid

secretly wishes you did

if what you want

is clinics where the AMA

can feed you pills to keep you weak, or sterile

shoot germs into your kids, while Mercke & Co

grows richer

if you want free psychiatric help for everyone

so that the shrinks

pimps for this decadence, can make

it flower for us, if you want

if you still want a piece

a small piece of suburbia, green lawn

laid down by the square foot

color TV, whose radiant energy

kills brain cells, whose subliminal ads

brainwash your children, have taken over

your dreams

degrees from universities which are nothing

more than slum landlords, festering sinks

of lies, so you too can go forth

and lie to others on some greeny campus

THEN YOU ARE STILL

THE ENEMY, you are selling

yourself short, remember

you can have what you ask for, ask for

everything

-DIANE Dl PRIMA

Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters (updated-now 35 Letters) can be had by sending $ 0.25 in coin or stamps, or if you don't have either just your name and address will do. Send to Artists Workshop Press, Trans Love Energies 1510 Hill, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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