@patmonkrn Hey sorry if my comment wasn't clear. I meant that I was in awe during the performance as in this video and the movie it is from "Wholly Communion". I am only 22 and I would give everything to have been there. I often dream about this singular event and it inspires me to write. Do you have any anecdotes/experiences you would like to share?
I am sorry I don't have facebook. If I did I would surely add you.
Great to see this again,i first heard it on BBC's The RocknRoll Years.I say: "Stab my heart with metal; Vandalize my pension; Smother my buttocks with Marmite; Tell me lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction!
Was great to hear this again. This poem hangs on the wall at my folks house. My dad resigned from the USAF in 1964 as a protest aginst Viet-Nam. I have two brothers who served there. My oldest brother was a Marine who was in Laos in 1962, yes 1962! My other brother was there 1968-1970. We support our troops in Iraq, not the men who sent them there. Get active, protest this war. Write letters, start a discussion group. But get active. Iran could be the next Cambodia. Peace.
Just as powerful a poem and as affecting a reading as it was all those years ago. Adrian recently updated this poem to address the current state of affairs in Iraq. Well put in both cases! Five Stars.
First, it was a second poem tacked on to the end, not part of the first.
It's a play on words -- a drag on a cigarette is the pressure to suck down some smoke, and a when something "is a drag" it means it's takes a lot of effort to overcome resistance to get it done.
So powerful...
cosmosspring 4 months ago
He was an angry man.
Applemask 1 year ago
Tell me truths
sirussm 1 year ago
thanks for posting this - i was privileged to have attended the Poetry Incarnation - a truly memorable occasion!
hirsutemal 1 year ago
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See my response to LoginAnders
patmonkrn 1 year ago
@patmonkrn used to frequently visit the Flamingo for Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, Chris Farlowe et al!
hirsutemal 1 year ago
@patmonkrn used to frequently visit the Flamingo for Georgie Fame, Zoot Money, Chris Farlowe et al!
hirsutemal 1 year ago
tell me lies about bush and obama
BAhern63 1 year ago
I'm usually not into poetry. Not event in my mother tongue.
But i ran on that lecture on french TV, and it just blew my mind.
Simply amazing.
lutshow 1 year ago
That was so great. I was in awe during this whole performance. Can anyone recommend me similar poems and/or readings. Thank you!
LogInAnders 1 year ago
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I was also there. Did you ever hang at The Flamingo and boogie with Georgie Fame.
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patmonkrn 1 year ago
@patmonkrn Hey sorry if my comment wasn't clear. I meant that I was in awe during the performance as in this video and the movie it is from "Wholly Communion". I am only 22 and I would give everything to have been there. I often dream about this singular event and it inspires me to write. Do you have any anecdotes/experiences you would like to share?
I am sorry I don't have facebook. If I did I would surely add you.
Take care.
LogInAnders 1 year ago
Amazing poem.
DecHelmore 1 year ago
Weird.. I didn't copy anything yet today... I did "Paste" And got this: To whom it may concern
Uithoorn, 23 december 2009
D4hk1LL4H 2 years ago
UNDEROATH!
bryroh 2 years ago
Ginsberg didn't seem impressed...
Yabbablabba 2 years ago 3
he - along with everyone else - was out of it.
peterlemer 2 years ago
tell me lies about Palestine
jwad2006 2 years ago 11
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for posting this! Requiescat in pace, Adrian.
piperboy909 2 years ago 2
great poem by another son of a dying world
DeafKaliban 3 years ago 2
Wish some one could nail W's sorry ass with a poem!!! One he'd hear in his sleep.
modoc63 3 years ago
I was hit on the head by the truth a year ago today.
Ever since the accident I've thought this way
So wash my brain with water
Tell me lies about Iraq.
Heard Abu Garib prisoners screaming with pain,
Couldn't find them so I went back to sleep again
So plug my ears with bullets
Wash my brain with water
Tell me lies about Iraq.
richintalent 2 years ago
RIP to Adrian.
The man who said it all.
schusterlehrling 3 years ago 6
Just heard the news and came here to pay tribute. Another good man gone and the world gets a little more mundane and average.
gaspode18 3 years ago 5
I heard he has just died. Rest in peace Adrian Mitchell, you were an inspiration
joseonthekingsroad 3 years ago 10
... Adrian I love you! wonderful to spot Alan Ginsberg listening so intently too.when will the time be when this poem need not be performed??? xm
miriamnabarro 3 years ago
Great to see this again,i first heard it on BBC's The RocknRoll Years.I say: "Stab my heart with metal; Vandalize my pension; Smother my buttocks with Marmite; Tell me lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction!
philipsmovies 3 years ago 3
Saw him last night at marxism, he still has it!
weirdloopyloo 3 years ago
Was great to hear this again. This poem hangs on the wall at my folks house. My dad resigned from the USAF in 1964 as a protest aginst Viet-Nam. I have two brothers who served there. My oldest brother was a Marine who was in Laos in 1962, yes 1962! My other brother was there 1968-1970. We support our troops in Iraq, not the men who sent them there. Get active, protest this war. Write letters, start a discussion group. But get active. Iran could be the next Cambodia. Peace.
ZELPHOR 4 years ago 3
Just as powerful a poem and as affecting a reading as it was all those years ago. Adrian recently updated this poem to address the current state of affairs in Iraq. Well put in both cases! Five Stars.
BDWong 4 years ago 4
Adrian Mitchell...what a genius! Big respect
72holly 4 years ago
hi, I'm french and I don't understand the end of the poem: "love is like a cigarette, the bigger..." and after ?
redrum74 5 years ago
... the bigger the drag the more you get.
:-)
stalburg 5 years ago
First, it was a second poem tacked on to the end, not part of the first.
It's a play on words -- a drag on a cigarette is the pressure to suck down some smoke, and a when something "is a drag" it means it's takes a lot of effort to overcome resistance to get it done.
drharveys 4 years ago
thank you ;)
redrum74 4 years ago