time now only for light and love.
No time now for fear and loathing,
time now only for light and love
Time now to face outward
with eyes wide open…
Where are Whitman’s wild children,
where the great voices speaking out
with a sense of sweetness and sublimity,
where the great new vision,
the great world-view,
the high prophetic song
of the immense earth
and all that sings in it
And our relations to it -
Poets, descend
to the street of the world once more
And open your minds & eyes
with the old visual delight,
Clear your throat and speak up.
-lawrence ferlinghetti, populist manifesto no.1
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