Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:12:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott McLemee <mclemee-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-I: The former Soviet Union: what went wrong?


> Louis: Honestly, I simply don't have the background to do a good job on
> this. My focus is on how to re-construct a socialist international for the
> 21st century. Why don't you work on economic policy? Godena has already
> volunteered to work on military matters and McLemee on artistic and
> literary problems.
> 
> 
My first act as Commissar is to make Allen Ginsberg the new Poet 
Laureat.  All kindergarden teachers are to have memorized the poem 
"America" by May Day.

"...America when I was seven momma took to Communist Cell meetings they 
sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickle and the 
speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental you have no idea 
what a good thing the party was . . . "

Extra credit questions (five points each):

Why was this a brave poem to write in 1956?
What's a garbanzo?  


				Scott McLemee
				People's Committee on Artistic
					and Literary Problems


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