{"id":1032,"date":"2007-07-27T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2007-07-27T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:49:00","slug":"a-d-winans-is-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/a-d-winans-is-giving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A. D. Winans is giving up"},"content":{"rendered":"

In these two poems, Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans explains why he is giving up on certain things…<\/span>


GIVING UP ORGANIZATIONS<\/span>
 <\/span>
The one thing I notice about my former<\/span>
COSMEP friends<\/span>
Is that they haven't changed over the decades<\/span>
They still publish and have love affairs<\/span>
With each other or with themselves<\/span>
They have become small town politicians<\/span>
Or Midwest college professors<\/span>
But put them in a room together<\/span>
And you see how boring they really are<\/span>

They don't drink<\/span>
They don't gamble<\/span>
They don't smoke dope<\/span>
But they talk a lot<\/span>
Mostly about themselves<\/span>
And things they know little about<\/span>

It's time to put them out of my life<\/span>
End all organizational ties<\/span>
These tiny ants who gather at picnics<\/span>
Begging for small favors<\/span>

(COSMEP = the San Francisco-based Committee Of Small Magazine Editors & Publishers)<\/span>



GIVING UP POLITICS<\/span>

9\/11 has gutted my political will<\/span>
I can no longer alprazolam 1mg online<\/a> pledge allegiance<\/span>
To the flag of the U.S. and all it represents<\/span>
The Patriot Act be damned<\/span>

I will not wrap myself in old glory<\/span>
And everything it no longer stands for<\/span>
I will not bow down to Corporate America<\/span>
And its radical religious right<\/span>
 <\/span>
I can't accept your moral bankruptcy<\/span>
Your green back god buying and selling lives<\/span>
On the Stock Market Exchange.<\/span>

I will not bow down to a country where Assassins<\/span>
Determine the course of history<\/span>
Whose Papal Church has its own bank<\/span>
Where Ka-ching, ka-ching<\/span>
Has become the holy mantra<\/span>

America you are one big insane asylum<\/span>
Your manic depressive innkeepers<\/span>
Waging war on the masses<\/span>
Your henchmen standing proud<\/span>
On your purple majestic mountains<\/span>
Kissing the cold stone faces on Mount Rushmore<\/span>
Looking like a Mafia Don with the<\/span>
Cold kiss of death on his breath<\/span>

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In these two poems, Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans explains why he is giving up on certain things…GIVING UP ORGANIZATIONS The one thing I notice about my formerCOSMEP friendsIs that they haven't changed over the decadesThey still publish and have love affairsWith each other or with themselvesThey have become small town politiciansOr Midwest college professorsBut put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}