| DIANE DI PRIMA
| Activist,
poet and artist who started in the late 50s and
somehow
survived
the beat poets and FBI harassment
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NY and later San Francisco -
click on the picture below for a PDF copy of her book
'Revolutionary Letters'
The Wikipedia page
The Diane di Prima
Poetry Foundation
Revolutionary
Letters (1968-'71)
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REVOLUTIONARY
LETTER #15
When you seize Columbia, when you
seize Paris,
take
the media, tell the people what you’re doing,
what you’re up to and how and why you mean
to do it,
how they can help, keep the news
coming,
steady, you have 70 years
of media conditioning to combat,
it is a wall
you must get through, somehow, to reach
the instinctive man,
who is struggling like a plant
for light, for air
//
when
you seize a town, a campus,
get hold of the power
stations, the water, the transportation,
forget to negotiate, forget how
to negotiate,
don’t wait for De Gaulle or Kirk
to abdicate, they won’t,
you are not
‘demonstrating’ you are fighting
a war, fight to win,
don’t wait for Johnson or
Humphrey or Rockefeller, to agree to your terms
take what you need,
it’s free
because it’s yours
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