Not P but Beat: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Centennial Interview

[Jochen Stremmel]

Don't forget that he shed tears when he saw that man beating his horse ...

Am Mi., 9. Jan. 2019 um 17:13 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> As Nietzsche is always asking, "Why is there still pity?"
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:43 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you very much, Allan: nice photograph.
> >
> > I think the poem is about 12 years old, there's a clip on youtube from
> 2007
> > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCblAJtzgE) where it is called a
> recent
> > effort.
> >
> > Am Mi., 9. Jan. 2019 um 14:58 Uhr schrieb Allan Balliett <
> > allan.balliett at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Ferlinghetti has a new book coming out in March to commemorate his
> >> hundredth birthday. He talks about it, the state of American and the
> state
> >> of San Francisco, month other things here
> >> <
> >>
> http://www.documentjournal.com/2018/12/lawrence-ferlinghetti-on-the-old-san-francisco-his-new-novel-and-his-first-100-years/
> >> .
> >>
> >> Here's an old poem of his, sorry, don't have the date, but it's probably
> >> from the Nixon-era, making it a deomonstrtion of Trump as a logical
> >> "evolution" of American politics, not a malignancy that appeared out of
> >> nowhere.
> >>
> >>
> >> “Pity the Nation” (After Khalil Gibran)
> >>
> >> ‘Pity the nation whose people are sheep
> >> And whose shepherds mislead them
> >> Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced
> >>
> >> And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its
> >> voice Except to praise conquerors
> >> And acclaim the bully as hero
> >>
> >> And aims to rule the world
> >> By force and by torture
> >> Pity the nation that knows
> >> No other language but its own
> >> And no other culture but its own
> >> Pity the nation whose breath is money And sleeps the sleep of the too
> well
> >> fed Pity the nation oh pity the people
> >>
> >> who allow their rights to erode
> >> and their freedoms to be washed away
> >> My country, tears of thee
> >> Sweet land of liberty!’
> >>
> >> -Allan in WV
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