1968 Sanders 2000

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


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