"Going to pay homage to a whore Put Bukowski’s face on Mount Rushmore" GOING TO MAKE POETRY AN INSTITUTION
Going to run for political office On a pledge to make poetry an institution Going to rattle the white mans power cage Show them the meaning of real rage The preacher man doubts evolution The con man doesn’t believe in revolution The priest has run out of absolution No more autographs no more forced laughs No more hanging around the zoo swapping Stories with gurus Going to smoke me some dope With my good friend the Pope Going to make love nice and slow Read me some Edgar Allen Poe Lose myself in the Jimmy Fallon show Going to make a cameo appearance On the late night show Play me some John Lee Hooker blues Going to penetrate a prerogative Bugger the cosmos Evolve evolution into a revolution Put anarchy on the stock market Nuke technology, outlaw e-mail Declare Da Da the official English language Going to hang religion from a tree Make John Brown the new National Anthem Turn outlaws into in-laws Landlords into donors Going to pay homage to a whore Put Bukowski’s face on Mount Rushmore Going to name a bus after Rosa Park Put a little nookie in every fortune cookie Expose Saint Nick as a chick with A twelve-inch dick Going to invite Trump’s old lady To ride through the streets of Chinatown In a see-through nightgown Going to sing a ballad with Lorca And a band of gypsies Stop off at the manager Have a long talk with the Lone Ranger Going to put an end to hemorrhoids Outlaw humanoids Going to offer a truce Bring back Lenny Bruce Make politicians ride the caboose Going to go back to school Erase the golden rule Going to feed a vulture Starve off mass culture Going to turn evolution into a revolution Make poetry an institution A.D. WINANS About the author: Allan Davis Winans (born January 12, 1936 in San Francisco, California), known as A. D. Winans, is an American poet, essayist, short story writer and publisher. Born in San Francisco, California, he returned home from Panama in 1958, after serving three years in the military. In 1962, he graduated from San Francisco State College. He made his home away from home in North Beach where he became friends with Beat poets like Bob Kaufman and Jack Micheline. He was the founder of Second Coming Press, a small press based in San Francisco that published books, poetry broadsides, a magazine, and anthologies. He edited Second Coming Magazine for seventeen years from 1972 to 1989. Winans became friends with Charles Bukowski, whose work he published. He also published Bukowski's then-girlfriend, Linda King. Other writers he published included Jack Micheline, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, David Meltzer, Charles Plymell. etc. In 2002, he published his memoir, Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & The Second Coming Revolution. A.D. Winans has had poetry, book reviews, and short stories published in over 2,000 magazines and anthologies. He has written 63 books of poetry, and two books of prose. A song poem of his was performed at Alice Tully Hall, New York City. In 2006, he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature. In 2009 PEN Oakland presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was a recipient of a Kathy Acker Award in poetry and publishing. His latest book, "San Francisco Poems" published by Little Red Tree Publishing, CT, includes an extended biography with many photographs, plus 99 poems, old and new. In 2016 he appeared in a documentary movie on the life of poet Bob Kaufman. The movie was premiered in April 2016 at the San Francisco International Movie Festival.
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