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Lawrence's Acceptance Speech For the National Book Awards 2005

Lawrence's Inaugural Speech For Poet Laureate of San Francisco 1998

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BRAINWASHED POET

Lawrence Ferlinghetti


He dropped his pencil
And picked up a bomb
And the pencil writing backward
Came to a point
And exploded as if it were loaded
With something worse than verse
And he was the first poet
To have his pencil shots
Ring through the night
And such a success was he
That they named him
National Poet of the Plutocracy
Destroying our democracy

Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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