Preparations & Ideas for the 50th

[Phil Dragoo]

The objection raised, that that was a long time ago, what difference can it make now

In a dusty factory corner I slid open a drawing board drawer and withdrew the yellowed card

Kierkegaard our friend to remind that always living forward never seeing, only in reverse

I saw the broken glass in the aftermath of Ayers and Dohrn, saw the Justice lawyers with their rictus grins, flipping off the ruddy-banded Maoists

Leaving for Taos in a minibus by the cemetary in Santa Fe Ginsberg bear on hind legs-like roaring at the window

Snowden is giving his life for this; Hastings had his taken

Unless I'm mistaken, the crowds can't hear a thing

Every day I find myself looking someone in the eyes and fronting them--just by the by--

--we'll get the smack from Burma thanks to historic visits by Obama and Hillary

Lean is made with Robitussin, Arizona Watermelon Drink and Skittles

Syria will pit the U.S. proxy Muslim Brotherhood against the Russian- and Iranian-backed regime

and doesn't it seem we continue to generate sink holes for arms to make them cornucopias for drugs and oil?

Is there a magic dopamine to effect a brief window of lucidness

What is the mass medium for this antidote to ignorance

It's nice when someone says, oh, I didn't know that

What led to that--let's bottle it, oh, but wait

It was just you talking to a friend who

Let you in side the gates raised

the shutters on the slit

in their armored

conning

tower

And if a Norman Mailer tries to tell you we were in Vietnam because of machismo

slay him with tales of a naysayer slain--so much they know that isn't so

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