Not P but Beat: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Centennial Interview

[Ian Livingston]

Ah, the Turin Horse, yes. Never did really have a good life much, if we
like the movie as a follow up.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:44 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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