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Subject: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 Mar 19 - 11:59 PM I didn’t get much sleep last night thinking about underwear Have you ever stopped to consider underwear in the abstract When you really dig into it some shocking problems are raised Underwear is something we all have to deal with Everyone wears some kind of underwear Even Indians wear underwear Even Cubans wear underwear The Pope wears underwear I hope The Governor of Louisiana wears underwear I saw him on TV He must have had tight underwear He squirmed a lot Underwear can really get you in a bind You have seen the underwear ads for men and women so alike but so different Women’s underwear holds things up Men’s underwear holds things down Underwear is one thing men and women do have in common Underwear is all we have between us You have seen the three-color pictures with crotches encircled to show the areas of extra strength with three-way stretch promising full freedom of action Don’t be deceived It’s all based on the two-party system which doesn’t allow much freedom of choice the way things are set up America in its Underwear struggles thru the night Underwear controls everything in the end Take foundation garments for instance They are really fascist forms of underground government making people believe something but the truth telling you what you can of can’t do Did you ever try to get around a girdle Perhaps Non-Violent Action is the only answer Did Gandhi wear a girdle? Did Lady Macbeth wear a girdle? Was that why Macbeth murdered sleep? And the spot she was always rubbing - Was it really her underwear? Modern anglosaxon ladies must have huge guilt complexes always washing and washing and washing Out damned spot Underwear with spots very suspicious Underwear with bulges very shocking Underwear on clothesline a great flag of freedom Someone has escaped his Underwear May be naked somewhere Help! But don’t worry Everybody’s still hung up in it There won’t be no real revolution And poetry still the underwear of the soul And underwear still covering a multitude of faults in the geological sense - strange sedimentary stones, inscrutable cracks! If I were you I’d keep aside an oversize pair of winter underwear Do not go naked into that good night And in the meantime keep calm and warm and dry No use stirring ourselves up prematurely ‘over Nothing’ Move forward with dignity hand in vest Don’t get emotional And death shall have no dominion There’s plenty of time my darling Are we not still young and easy? Don’t shout. |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Mar 19 - 12:33 AM Celebrating 100 years of Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: GUEST,paperback Date: 27 Mar 19 - 01:11 AM City Lights -- paperbacks only It's the Paperback Revolution! |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: GUEST,Portista! Date: 27 Mar 19 - 05:11 AM @BAW, Thank you for posting Ferlinghetti’s Underwear for all to see! It has been years since I’ve read it, but it, and he continue to amuse and delight. Happy Centenary, Lawrence Ferlinghetti! “Semper Ubi Sub Ubi!” |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 28 Mar 19 - 06:22 PM NPR interviews Ferlinghetti |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 28 Mar 19 - 08:39 PM I was introduced to Ferlinghetti in a high school Humanities class in 1969. We read and discussed his poetry for several days. This was at a southern US public school where dress and hair length codes were strictly enforced and where the principal was a narrow-minded former football coach with a bad attitude toward anything "hippyish". That teacher was a very brave man. Later on, in college, I wrote a research paper on Ferlinghetti. I only received a "B-" on it. The professor's comment was "Well written, but you should have picked a real poet instead of such a lightweight pretender." That professor was a shit-head. |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: Big Al Whittle Date: 28 Mar 19 - 11:10 PM worlds full of 'em.... they screw up people's lives. They screw up society by standing in the way people who look for positives and creativity. |
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Subject: RE: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 100 From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 29 Mar 19 - 01:48 AM |
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