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| Ferlinghetti's Schedule of Readings & Events Books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti New Poems:
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| The first fine dawn of life on earth The first light of the first morning The first evening star The first man on the moon seen from afar The first voyage of Ulysses westward The first fence on the last frontier The first tick of the atomic clock of fear The first Home Sweet Home so dear The sweet smell of honeysuckle at midnight The first free black man free of fright The sweet taste of freedom The first good orgasm The first Noble Savage The first Pale Face settler on the first frontier The first ball park hotdog with mustard The first home run in Yankee Stadium The first song of love and forty cries of despair The first pure woman passing fair The sweet smell of success The first erection and the first Resurrection The first darling buds of May The last covered wagon through the Donner Pass The first green sprouts of new grass The last cry of Mark Twain! on the Mississippi The First and Last Chance Saloon The ghostly galleon of the half-moon The first cry of pure joy in morning light The distant howl of trains lost in book of night The last new moon sinking The last of the Mohicans The last sweet chariot swinging low The last hand caught in the last cookie jar The last cowboy on the last frontier The last bald eagle with nothing to fear The last buffalo head nickel and the last buffalo The first hippie heading for the hills The last bohemian in a beret The last true poet with something to say The last Wobbly and the last Catholic Anarchist The last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade The last Nazi The last Mom and Pop grocery The last firefly flickerng in the night The first plane to hit the first Twin Tower The last plane to hit the last Twin Tower The only plane to ever hit the Pentagon The birth of a vast national paranoia The beginning of the Third World War (the War Against the Third World) The first trip abroad by an ignorant president The last free-running river The last gas and oil on earth The last general strike The last Fidelista the last Sandinista the last Zapatista The next political prisoner The last virgin and the last of the champagne The last train to leave the station The next Great Depression The last will & testament The last welfare check for rent The end of the old New Deal The insecurity of Homeland Security The last independent newspaper printing the news and raising hell The last word and the last laugh and the Last Hurrah The last picture show and the last waltz The last Unknown Soldier The last innocent American and the first Ugly American The last Great Lover and the last New Yorker The last home-fries with ketchup-to-go The last train home at midnight The last syllable of recorded time The last long careless rapture The last independent bookstore with its own mind The last best hope of mankind The lost chord and the lost leader The last drop of likker The cup that runneth over quicker The last time I saw Paris Texas The last peace treaty and the Last Supper The first sweet signs of spring The first sweet bird of youth The first baby tooth and the last wisdom tooth The last honest election The last freedom of information The last free Internet The last free speech radio The last unbought television network The last homespun politician The last Jeffersonian The last Luddite in Berkeley The last Bottom Line and the last of Social Security The first fine evening calm and free The beach at sunset with reclining nudes the lovers wrapped in each other The last meeting of the Board The last gay sailor to come aboard The first White Paper written in blood The last citizen who bothered to vote The first President picked by a Supreme Court The end of the Time of Useful Consciousness The unfinished flag of the United States The ocean’s long withdrawing roar The birth of a nation of sheep The deep deep sleep of Middle America The underground wave of feel-good fascism The uneasy rule of the super-rich The total triumph of imperial America The final proof of our Manifest Destiny The first loud cry of America über alles Echoing in freedom’s alleys The last lament for lost democracy The total triumph of totalitarian plutocracy CODA Cut down cut down cut down Cut down the grassroots Cut down those too wild weeds in our great agri-fields and golf courses Cut down cut down those wild sprouts Cut down cut down those rank weeds Pull down your vanity, man, pull down the too wild buds the too wild shoots Cut down the wild unruly vines & voices the hardy volunteers and pioneers Cut down cut down the alien corn Cut down the crazy introverts Tongue-tied lovers of the subjective Cut down cut down the wild ones the wild spirits The desert rats and monkey wrenchers Easy riders and midnight cowboys in narco nirvanas Cut down the wild alienated loners Cut down cut down all those freaks and free thinkers Wild-eyed poets with wandering minds Soapbox agitators and curbstone philosophers Far out weirdos and rappers Stoned-out visionaries and peace-niks Exiles in their own land! O melting pot America! |
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