Poetry Is Revolution Yes It Is Yes It Is Poetry Is Revolution

POETRY IS REVOLUTION YES IT IS YES IT IS POETRY IS REVOLUTION

POWER TOWER: A Dynamite Song

america, you crazy mother country.

your rounded television culture people

moving throu the hardedge

legal & business world.

assination a daily diet

of madness.

OH ANDY WARHOL

we pray for you. for political candidates

everywhere

your hardass television commercial

business world. "what's good for plastic

is good for the U.S.A."

your blindness to the evil & poverty

around you.

OH SUBURBIA!

they'd have a revolution

& you wouldn't know

until daddy came home form work

or you turned on the color tube.

soon they'll have all your fingerprints.

steal your dreams. traded

for new cars, swimming pools

fancy address.

OH GHOST OF BOBBY HUTTON

don't fall for the white man's dream.

his nightmare is waking up the world

soon all the bells will be ringing

a fable:

richard krech

Mythology for the Peoples 

Liveration

Work/5 anthology of poetry and revolution is availbe from Artists Workshop Press

1510 Hill, Ann Arbor, Mich 48104. Send $1.00 to get your copy, don't be unarmed. 

THE DROUGHT. & HOW THE RAINS CAME

there aren't any keys anywhere.

i went to the locksmith

& he said so

i went to the jewler

& he said so too.

so i went to the priest

& he said ask the politician

who said ask god

who said in a deep voice

my sun. 

"grow your own." 

horoscope: during revolutionary

activity commerce will

be disrupted

the fighting has begun.

they have already attacked.

don't turn in yr. gun.

richard krech

REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS

Diane Di Prima

Number One

I have just realized that the stakes are myself

I have no other

ransom money, nothing to break or barter

but my life

my spirit meausred out, in bits, spread over

the roulette table, I recoup what I can

nothing else to shave under the nose of the 

maitre de jue

nothing to thurst out the window, no white

flag

this flesh all I have to offer, to make the play

with

this immediate head, what it comes with,

my move

as we slither over this board, stepping always

(we hope) between the lines

"We must not only demand that all U.S. forces withdraw immediately form Vietnam we must go beyond that to show that U.S. aggression in Vietnam is not an isolated atrocity, but part of a policy of imperial domination and exploitation of the resources and the peoples of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and even Western Europe and Canada. We must make clear the connection between this international imperialism and the colonial oppression of black people and other people of color in this country. We must raise the fundamental question of whom the land and the means of production rightfully belong to; we must declare that the people have a right to enjoy the wealth created by their own labor." 

Eldridge Cleaver

BLACK PANTHER 10 POINT PROGRAM

1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black community. 

2. We want full employment for our people.

3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our black community.

4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.

5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.

6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. 

7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. 

8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.

9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the constitution of the United States.

10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace, and as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.

"In all ages and under all circumstances ther will always exist abundant reason not to fight, but that will be the only way not to obtain liberty." 

Fidel Castro

"For further awareness lay in dropping every fixed concept of self, identity, role, ideal, habit and pleasure." 

Allen Ginsberg

"...the struggle shall not be for money or for power, but for individual freedom and common effort towards good." 

D.H. Lawrence

Join the White Panthers, subvert, attack, destroy, expand, now, now before its to late, stop the pigs, support the Black Panthers, support Yippies, Motherfuckers. Start a White Panther Party in you neighborhood. The time is right, the revolution is now, get a gun. Read Guerilla Warfare by Che.

The Artists Workshop Press of Ann Arbor is in need of mimeograph paper, we have a lot of stuff that the people need to read and we want to print it but we don't have the paper to do it, if you have any way of getting mimeograph paper or if you know someone who can score it get in touch with us. This is your revolution too ya know. 

A rule of thumb of revolutionary politics is that no matter how oppressive the ruling class may be no matter how impossible the task of making revolution seem the means of making that revolution are always near at hand.

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