Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[@nastystairspoetryspokenword]

We're listening to Ferlinghetti now and we've been crawling around on the floor drinking black whiskey and we're praying to the poetry gods that Ferlinghetti and Corso are looking down on us and praying for whiskey bent visions, pulling Hirschman's beard, and trying to translate Thompson's well known proverbs, all the while singing some old Hank tunes. We can't keep shooting off 12 gauge rounds into the night but Ferlinghetti's poetry lights our way and without him we are lost. When will we see those city lights again. God bless you for keeping the pterodactyls at bay and pelicans in proper footwear. Thank you for posting these most of intelligent notes, on uniquely American trails. Ice your whiskey and sharpen your wits and God bless the USA for giving us Ferlinghetti, Corso, and Hirschman.

[@philathans2260]

Just brilliant. And so perfectly DIY… he brings his own little CD player.

[@HerAeolianHarp]

RIP to a legend. He died on the same day we honor the 200th year of Keats’ passing. Hail City Lights and literary freedom. Hail San Francisco of old!

[@jouquinfox9453]

:)

[@sriswan]

my fav book Coney.... what a great treat

[@deathwalk60]

I love the way Lawrence reads. Can you believe it, he and Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, and others started the Beat Generation.

[@christieashley5937]

Wish I could have been there.

[@tattoofthesun]

also WOW WOW WOW that last poem...... the ideas of birds, flight, the american Eagle for God's sake the imagery is amazingly intertwined... flying, hijacking, the 3rd world, the 3rd world war just WOW what connections, the man has it all the voice and all

[@izovire]

The seagulls were freaky at first. But the poem slowly worked it out.. Very inspiring is poetry that involves astronomy...

[@Poconnor82803]

"with their lives our dreams are sown"

[@blairtoo]

what a treat this video was.

[@anneperry9065]

blairtoo pp

[@richard.l5563]

what's a mellon list?

[@StJohnJen]

My soul, sleeping through a fascist high school was awakened by a poem in a dusty anthology 'Christ Climbed Down" and, with my heart, ran away to San Francisco where, at City Lights, Lawrence presided over a Feast of Beats and Gave Voice to a Vixen -- Freedom! jrs

[@akostoglotov]

does some audio book with his poetry exist?

[@artistgkovach]

Here's a poem for you that is actually incorporated into one of my paintings. Put in psychotic episode 107 then go to the artist web site at the end of the video for thirty more poems, paintings and drawings. Give your evaluations.

[@tattoofthesun]

he says exaggerations! the truth from a true poet

[@Raymantico]

Popeye's grandpappy shipping the same shop-worm poems and Baloney.

[@Raymantico]

He was at D-Day too!!! I thought he only clobbered them at Nagasaki!? He really was Popeye! But yeah, that's it--I have to ask myself "why do I hate America so much?"

[@yourmother2739]

He like other Beat Poets was very much against bombing Japan.

[@andrewsletcher6424]

cringe level10000000000000% from that girl at the start

[@xyzllii]

Yawn.