L. Ferlinghetti: Tentative Description of a Dinner to Promote the Impeachment of Pres. Eisenhower

This was written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1958. He had seen Nagasaki a few weeks after the atom bomb destroyed it. That experience changed his life. The Tentative Description is less about Eisenhower than about all Presidents since then and their inability to recognize the nuclear danger; and about the "strange rain that would never stop .. and perverted pollen blown on sunless seas - eaten by irradiated fish who spawned up cloudleaf streams add fell upon our dinner plates."

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News & Politics

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• nuclear bomb
• disarmament

[jbowen43]

With a few bongos this would sound very much like the recording of the poem by Ferlinghetti on Fantasy records. I bought it in 1960.