{"id":253,"date":"2009-07-21T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.arielgore.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-05-11T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:07:06","slug":"thinking-about-revolutionary-letter-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"thinking about Revolutionary Letter #19"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Diane di Prima<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(for the Poor People’s Campaign)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if what you want is jobs\u00c2\u00a0
for everyone, you are still the enemy,\u00c2\u00a0
you have not thought thru, clearly what that means.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if what you want is housing, Industry\u00c2\u00a0
(G.E. on the Navaho reservation)\u00c2\u00a0
a car for everyone, garage, refrigerator,\u00c2\u00a0
TV, more plumbing, scientific\u00c2\u00a0
freeways, you are still\u00c2\u00a0
the enemy, you have chosen\u00c2\u00a0
to sacrifice the planet for a few years\u00c2\u00a0
of some science fiction utopia, if what you want<\/p>\n

still is, or can be, schools\u00c2\u00a0
where all our kids are pushed into one shape, are taught\u00c2\u00a0
it’s better to be “American” than black\u00c2\u00a0
or Indian, or Jap, or Puerto Rican, where Dick\u00c2\u00a0
and Jane become and are the dream, do you\u00c2\u00a0
look like Dick’s father, don’t you think your kid\u00c2\u00a0
secretly wishes you did<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if what you want
is clinics where the AMA
can feed you pills to keep you weak, or sterile,
shoot germs into your kids, while Merck & Co. grows richer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if you want
free psychiatric help for everyone
so that the shrinks,
pimps for this decadence, can make
it flowers for us,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

if you still want a piece\u00c2\u00a0
a small piece of suburbia, green lawn\u00c2\u00a0
laid down by the square foot\u00c2\u00a0
color TV, whose radiant energy\u00c2\u00a0
kills brain cells, whose subliminal ads\u00c2\u00a0
brainwash your children, have taken over\u00c2\u00a0
your dreams<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

degrees from universities which are nothing
more than slum landlords festering sinks of lies,
so you can go forth and lie to others
on some greeny campus<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

THEN YOU ARE STILL\u00c2\u00a0
THE ENEMY, you are selling\u00c2\u00a0
yourself short, remember\u00c2\u00a0
you can have what you ask for, ask for\u00c2\u00a0
everything<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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