Echo of '68

Cherry

By Parson Thru

Mon, 04 Nov 2019
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Sitting in a backroom

Wake conversation surrounds

Who’s dead?

Picking at volumes

Passages of this and that

Can’t settle

Pull out Ginsberg’s three buck poems

Sixty-five to seventy-one

Thoughts on ‘68

High above Illinois

A land divided, poisoned and polluted

In this darkened, mirrored room
It seems that fifty years on
Nothing much has changed

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you. X

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Submitted by drew_gummerson on

I enjoyed this. Is Thoughts on 68 a Ginsberg poem? Id like to read if so...

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thanks Drew. It's an idea culled from a number of poems in his collection "The Fall of America - poems of these states 1965-1971".

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Submitted by drew_gummerson on

Thanks. I've read a bit of Ginsberg, Howl obviously, and I love the Beats (more the time and their lives tbh).

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

They were interesting times. As with most of us, they produced a lot of writing. Somewhere among all that there are good things.

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