Edward Sanders 1968: A History in Verse, Black Sparrow Press: Santa Rosa CA, 2000 (1997).
" . . .
" March 6
" . . .
"Throughout the month
there were Saturday afternoon meetings at the Free University
at 20 East 14th Street near University Place
"I'd taught a course there once
called Revolutionary Egyptology
which had piqued the attention of the secret police
" . . . " p. 39
"April 11 The Fugs . . .
" . . .
"then we flew the next day to San Francisco
to play the main Avalon
April 12, 13, 14
"Jim Morrison was backstage one night
in his snake skin pants
swigging from a Jim Beam bottle
a bit too wasted to ask him
to sing in Chicago p. 89
" . . .
"April 17
"The Fugs flew to Los Angeles
and stayed once again at Sandy Koufax' Tropicana
at 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard
just a few blocks from the Troubadour Bar
"During our two weeks in L.A.
the jukeboxes in barland were singing
the seething/soothing of
Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne."
"We performed on the 19th and 20th
at the Cheetah, a place built on piers
on the beach in Venice
It was like playing Coney Island
There seemed to be a glut
of bikers backstage
Some of the Straight Satans
for instance, who lived nearby" p. 91
Columbia
" . . .
"And so, on April 23,
" . . .
"During the next three days . . .
"One day Mathematics Hall
with its flow of numbers
the next day
it was packed with SDS and leftists
and renamed "Liberated Zone 5"
with the red flag of Rev
and the black of Anarchia
starkly elegant, freshly defiant.
Leftists also grabbed Low
Tom Hayden (non Columbia student)
chaired Mathematics - he'd come over from
Newark where he'd been a housing organizer
Abbie Hoffman
stayed there too.
" . . . " p. 104
"Wednesday August 28
" . . .
"Rennie Davis was beaten bloody
The blood soaked rag
with which his wound was stanched
was later run up the
Grant Park pole.
"Tom Hayden
spoke to the crowd suggesting that
people break up into small groups
and go out into the streets" . . . p.196
"October 12
saw the glorious moment
of the raised fist glyph
when Tommy Smith
won the 200 meters
in a world record 19.8 seconds
raising his arms in jubilance
& John Carlos winning the bronze.
A few minutes later
on the platform of triumph
Carlos and Smith both lifted their arms
during the national anthem
with fists enmeshed in black gloves
a glorious glyph that told the world
such tales the War Caste forbade.
Both were dismissed
. . .
and sent home p. 223
Government
"In the years just before World War I
there were 70 socialist mayors in 24 states
1,200 socialist office holders in 340 cities
And the socialist Meyer London was in the
House of Representatives . . .
" . . .
"Eugene Debs in '12 got 6% of the vote for prez
My mentor Allen Ginsberg
had once sought to become a labor lawyer
and there were even a few good overtly socialist poets,
including Carl Sandburg . . . p. 229