Or maybe even he was referring to the state of the Left in the United States
at the time; torn by factionalism, worn out by its exertions over the
Vietnam War, riddled by McCarthyite and Cointelpro attacks?
Chris Hayden
>From: "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Poet as Prophet, as Seer
>Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 10:32:23 PDT
>
> > In that time [Bob Kaufman] composed the poem "The American Sun".
> > contains the following lines:
> >
> > ". . .HEAVEN UNDRESSES
> > THE BODY OF LENIN IN THE TOMB AND
> > DISCOVERS THE LEGS HAVE TURNED BLACK,
> > RUSSIAN COMMUNISM IS REFUSED THE
> > SACRAMENT BY HEAVEN. . ."
> >
> > and:
> >
> > " . . .THE TOMB OF
> > LENIN HAS BEEN DESTROYED,
> > THE BODY OF LENIN IS BEING CARRIED THROUGH
> > THE CITY . . ."
>
>
> Um, I think he was talking about the way the Soviet Union was at the
>time he was writing, not the way he thought it was going to be in the
>future.
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