9.21.2008

Revolutionary Letter #4





Revolutionary Letter #4

Left to themselves people
grow their hair. 
Left to themselves they 
take off their shoes. 
Left to themselves they make love
sleep easily 
share blankets, dope & children 
they are not lazy or afraid 
they plant seeds, they smile, they
speak to one another. The word
coming into its own: touch of love
on the brain, the ear. 

We return with the sea, the tides 
we return as often as leaves, as numerous 
as grass, gentle, insistent, we remember 
the way, 
our babes toddle barefoot thru the cities of the universe. 

Diane Di Prima- from "Revolutionary Letters ETC" Third Edition 1974.
Photo: JG

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