Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Remembrance of Poetry Magazines Past
Our intellectual Marines,
Landing in little magazines
Capture a trend.
-Auden
UP THE REVOLUTION
A travel-back-in-time wish for me might be
ECOLOGY NOW
To those hippie book shops in San Diego
//// THE PIGS
Mimeographed little poetry magazines
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
With their mimeographed art-class covers
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
TUNE IN TURN ON DROP OUT
Posters for the protest in Balboa Park
DROP ACID NOT BOMBS
Sunlit little tables and cigarettes
//// NO WE WON’T GO
Chipped cups of Jamaica Blue Mountain
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Percolating The Revolution in CAPS
DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY
PEACE LOVE AND HARMONY
Hippie chicks in turtlenecks and berets
FLOWER POWER
Their delicate laughter scorning the Proletariat
NEED RIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO COOL PEOPLE ONLY
And, like, do you dig Yevtushenko?
