Marc Olmsted
49 years old
San Francisco
Allen Ginsberg said "MARC OLMSTED inherited Burroughs' scientific nerve & Kerouac's movie-minded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco." Olmsted’s new book, WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? - POEMS FROM 3-YEAR RETREAT (Valley Contemporary Press, 2001), has an introduction by Ginsberg.
PEACE DEMONSTRATION 2003
San Francisco
Throats ripping over microphone –
thinking about poet Ginsberg’s psychedelic placard ideas:
pictures of bananas, oranges –
Joan Baez singing “o lord have mercy on me”
dakini voice’d “my holy shrine…” –
more shouting angry leftist revolution –
repeating Tibetan prayers silently –
GO SOLAR NOT BALLISTIC
Boys age 8 fight in play “Have you surrendered yet?”
WAR IS WAY STUPID
Martin Sheen fake president of tv WEST WING makes a speech that brings tears to the crowd because hope has darkened & the evil president is real –
the tie-dye man waves a tie-dye flag in a brown leather fringe coat & lifts his fist at speaker mention of “9/11” though he doesn’t know why
President Bush wishes they were all like him
Flower Power or WOW! MARX WAS RIGHT!?
Help!
(Don’t take my goth CD’s)
Berkeley kids w/ mohawks big signs anti-war a punk girl makes me think of the statue of liberty the torch of awareness the torch of the blue sky -
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
who can argue that?
Rushing home to see it for real on the six o’clock news
happy the news copter sees my body
a lot of bodies here today
it’s good
it’s good T.V.
it’s peace now
1/18/03
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