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By Lawrence Ferlinghetti Submitted by B.K. Date: 2003 Aug 13 Comment on this Work [[2003.08.13.17.46.30265]] |
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(Earlier versions of this were read at the Cafe Bombay, Mexico City, December, 2002 & at the City Lights Poetry Dance, 50th Anniversary Celebration, June 6, 2003) Viva Italia libera in the teeth of today's fascism Viva Garibaldi Viva Sacco and Vanzetti Viva pasta al pesto Viva amore pan' e vino Viva Mexico insurgente Viva Zapata & Pancho Villa Viva Frieda Kahlo & Siqueros & Rivera Viva Cuba libre Viven los Sandinistas & los Zapatistas Viva Chile libre & Salvador Allende & Victor Jara & Nicanor Parra & Pablo Neruda Viva America libre without George the Second and his plutocracy Viva Gandhi & Buddha & Martin Luther King Viva Abe Lincoln Viva Walt Whitman Viva Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Francis Kennedy Viva Mother Jones and Dorothy Day & Emma Goldman Viva Emily Dickinson & Edna St.Vincent Millay Viva Joe Dimaggio & Maryln Monroe & Spencer Tracy and Catherine Hepburn Viva all the San Francisco poets & painters & Diane di Prima & Anne Waldman & Jack Kerouac & Gregorio Corso & Allen Ginsberg Viva Dylan Thomas & Bob Dylan & Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Viva Studs Lonigan & Viva Studs Terkel Viva civil rights & the American Civil Liberties Union Viva hotdogs & beer at ballgames Viva City Lights in San Francisco Viva City Lights Italia Viva our free life on earth in the teeth of today's wars! Copyright (c) 2003 City Lights Books |