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Title[...] Do my thing Do my thing Shame on me [...]
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PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadsheet
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CatalogFC-1-007a
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-007a
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Notes
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,” from William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell” in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, was adopted by the Diggers as an early slogan. In Blake, the phrase suggests that wisdom comes not through prudence or restraint but through lived intensity. At the outset of Free Food in the Panhandle, it was painted on the side of the VW bus that delivered the hot stew every afternoon (Ringolevio, p. 249).
Abstract
This piece is a dense, improvisational Free City collage of manifesto, lament, and ecstatic exhortation, layering typed polemic, handwritten slogans, scattered quotations, and found imagery into a vision of America in spiritual and political collapse. Against denunciations of money, hierarchy, false power, and the dead weight of official politics, the sheet counters with Digger-style affirmations—free food, autonomy, brotherhood and sisterhood, and the insistence that people stop merely surviving and begin living. Its splattered red ground and fractured composition give the page the look of something half-broadcast, half-erupted, as though consciousness itself were breaking through the ruins of the established order.
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here lies Bob Dylan
murdered
from behind
by trembling flesh
who after being refused by lazarus
jumped on him for solitude
but was amazed to discover
that he was already
a streetcar &
that was exactly the end
of Bob Dylan

he now lies in Mrs. Actually's
beauty parlor
God rest his soul
& his rudeness

two brothers
& a naked mama's boy
who looks like Jesus Christ
can now share the remains
of his sickness
& his phone numbers
there is no strength
to give away-
everybody now
can just have it back

here lies bob dylan
demolished by Vienna politeness
which will now claim to have invented him
the cool people can
now write Fugues about him
& Cupid can now kick over his kerosene lamp--
bob dylan--killed by a discarded Oedipus
who turned
around
to investigate a ghost
& discovered that
the ghost
was more than one person

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