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SpeakOut

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A Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem

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Date Published:

Feb. 16, 2003, 8:30 a.m.

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Notes: Speak Out! by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land
And America turns the attack on its Twin Towers
Into the beginning of the Third World War

The war with the Third World
And the terrorists in Washington
Are drafting all the young men
And no one speaks

And they are rousting out
All the ones with turbans
And they are flushing out
All the strange immigrants

And they are shipping all the young men
To the killing fields again
And no one speaks

And when they come to round up
All the great writers and poets and painters
The National Endowment of the Arts of Complacency

Will not speak
While all the young men
Will be killing all the young men
In the killing fields again

So now is the time for you to speak
All you lovers of liberty
All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness
All you lovers and sleepers

Deep in your private dreams
Now is the time for you to speak

O silent majority
Before they come for you

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