In USA, John Dos Passos wrote,
"alright we are two nations."
That
was about Sacco and Vanzetti.
I think of the Army-McCarthy hearings,
Roy Cohn.
Nixon and the HUAC.
Help Underserved Arts Communities--
or I'll kill you.
No, that's Support Mental Health.
Support the Arts. You couldn't get a WPA Writer'
Project
through now, and if you did, it would be privatized. Run by
a defense
contractor. Lockheed-Martin on the ethnography of
Lower Alabama (Northwest Florida).
The similarities between
black and white sharecroppers. Friends of Hookworm.
The
Yellow Fever Festival. Pellagra. The four D's. Diarrhea,
dermatitis, dementia,
death. Poor folks, voting against
their own economic interests. Abortion, gay
marriage, flag-burning.
Civil rights, women's lib, gay pride. The DC-10. The
Spinning Fatalist.
A concrete lawn jockey, grinning like a dressed-up fool. We
have been
hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Malcolm, where are you now that we need you.