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KALEIDOSCOPE BUST p.2 SERVICE OF CONSCIENCE P.3 KENNETH PATHEN P.IO

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INATIONS THE GALT-RAY PHOTO A picture of a dead man?

A possible link between the assassinations of Pres­

ident Kennedy and Dr0 Martin Luther King is being investigated by William Turner, a former FBI agent. Turner, 41, now a free-lance writer living in Mill Valley, California, says, "I'm not drawing any con­ clusions,, I'm just saying the similarities are striking

enough that they should be investigatedq" Turner be­ lieves the possibility of a relationship is strong enough

to warrant a Congressional investigation0 Briefly, Turner's case rests on the following facts: * Mexican authorities, under the direction of the FBI,

prepared a sketch of Dr0 King's assassin, who was then believed to be hiding in Mexico. The finished sketch bears a close resemblance to a man arrested in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, after President Kennedy was shoto Kenneth Patchen, HALLELUJAH ANYWAY. Copyright 1966 by * A photograph released by the FBI of James Earl Kenneth Patchen. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Pub­ Ray, the prime suspect in the King assassination, looks lishing Corporation, New York. like the picture of a dead man. For more by, and a discussion of, Kenneth Patchen, see pages 10-11, * A rifle with a telescopic sight was "conveniently left at the crime scene" after both assassinations. * Authorities in both assassinations had little trouble KALEIDOSCOPE BUST by John Kois badly enough that they didn't want to lose the case before it began on some technicality. Being busted for publishing obscenity brings back a There were times in the Safety Building when some­ lot of scenes you thought were forgotten, scenes that one in the faceless procession of clerks, officers and happened too many years ago. The television programs officials gave evidence of having something approaching that ended with thanks to the FBI and the local poli.ce human feelings, but it didn't happen often. department for their cooperation; the bulletin board Officer Champagne, the arresting officer and the posters in grade school telling us what friends we had one who, according to the warrant, was offended by in the police department; the books stolen from the Kaleidoscope *14, was polite, even friendly. He was public library showing nude sketches that were hidden anxious to know what I'd say about him when I wrote under the mattress; the speeches at high school assem­ up the bust, and was afraid I'd accuse him and his blies by local police officials, warning of the dangers partner, who accompanied us from office to office, of waiting just off the school grounds, the friendly strangers being brutal. He wasn't. Just another decent man anxious to peddle their smut and drugs; the time your doing what he's told and hot really caring to ask why. mother cancelled a subscription to Life magazine be­ A detective who looked at the evidence said he cause reproductions of Grecian sculpture displayed more hadn't seen the paper before, but "why do you have THE DALLAS SUSPECT THE MEXICAN SKETCH marble flesh than she thought was healthy for her chil­ to print this shit?" Ex-FBI agent found the similarities striking dren; the constant attempts of parents, teachers, and A uniformed policeman, watching the mug shot being finding an "abundance of physical evidence," including everyone else charged with the health of your mind taken, said "Say 'pussy'." city maps with significant points circled. to avoid associating sex with anything really human The assistant District Attorney, who argued in Judge No one knows, Turner says, what happened to the and good. Duffy's court for $500 bail, said that all Kaleidoscope man arrested in Dealey Plaza after Kennedy's murder. 11 One of the most maligned minorities in this country readers and subscribers were "morons. " Kaleidoscope "He was either released without booking or his record is the "pornographer," the man who attempts to deal attorney James She!low argued for no bail, and Duffy, has been vacuum-cleaned. It seems incredible to me with sex honestly and openly. The man who appeals the great compromiser, decided on $250* that the people arrested that day weren't accounted to the "prurient interest." I never understood it, and The real reason for the bust? No one knows, since for." was even radical enough to think that an appeal to this is the fourth time Kaleidoscope has published Yab- The FBI's photo of Ray shows a man with his eyes prurient interest was normal, healthy and often nec­ Yums. Perhaps some of the high-ranking enemies we've closed. The eyes were painted in later for better iden­ essary. Now that I'm officially charged by the State made in the past few months put pressure on the DA's tification. The face seems puffy, according to Turner, of Wisconsin as being such a man, maybe I'll begin office to take action, perhaps too many PTA's com­ as if in death. In addition, Ray's coat collar is riding to understand it. plained, perhaps the city is acting out of a sincere up over his neck, indicating Ray was lying down when The warrant reads, The State of Wisconsin vs. John concern for the moral welfare of the residents of Mil­ the picture was taken. Kois. There must be some way out of here. waukee, or perhaps it was because the male in the In both assassinations, the identity of the assumed The bust itself was done tasefully, if the police picture was black and the female white, as one vice assassin was discovered through fingerprints found on department and particularly the vice squad ever does squad officer suggested. Most probably it was a com­ rifles left near the murder sites. "The circumstances anything tastefully. Rather than the expected raid on bination of all or most of the above, but we suspect raise the possibility that both Oswald and Ray are the office, there was a phone call requesting my ap­ that the racial interpretation was the determining factor. scapegoats," Turner said. pearance at the vice squad office. And instead of Otherwise, why haven't the numerous downtown skin Turner did not want to speculate on how someone the petty hassling at the Safety Building that kept Jim shops, which are opened under the benevolent eyes of might profit from the assassination of both Kennedy and Bowers waiting six hours, the booking, the processing, DA Hugh O'Connell, been subject to the scrutiny and King, but he did point out that both the Vietnam war and court appearance was handled efficiently and I was harassment of our morality police? and the racial climate worsened considerably after out of the building less than two hours after entering The whole affair contained enough contemporary Kennedy's assassination, and that the racial climate it. Seems I was a special prisoner; they want me Con't. on P. 19 worsened even more after King's assassination. "The fact that there is a pattern between the two assassinations is firm and I think it should be explored," DA, WHY JUST US: Turner said. "Is this coincidence or is it not?11 KALEIDOSCOPE May 24 - June 6, 1968 Page 3

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by Linda Akin of resistance is not just an act of protest — but an to be duped into the same political game that was affirmation of the beliefs that America has taught us... pulled in 1964, when we voted for the "peace" can­ "Help us to get out....Help us to stop the war.... beliefs which America doesn't intend to work with." didate — Lyndon Johnson. O God, who is sold for a lousy buck as a sweet whore At this point Mike Cullen announced the "breaking in Saigon, and dies every night and hates her mur­ Resistance Is Saying YES of bread," the sharing with one another among the derers. ..unable to outrace destruction... we don't dis­ By severing himself from the Selective Service, peaceful people present. A statement of support was criminate when it comes to killing... Goldberg felt that he had affirmed his beliefs that passed among the audience so that those who would "O God, who is hung up, knowing the war is wrong "resistance is saying YES — to joy, to freedom — to support the Resistance movement could do so. We but we're there and can't see any way out, and the all things that are me—my thing...some of my friends have reprinted this statement below, and if you wish war grows and grows....O God, who hates the war, have been shot and killed...all we have to face is to aid the resistance movement, please sign it and its sickness, its immorality, the unjustness, the calamity possible confinement." He explained that although he mail it to Kaleidoscope. and folly, and is afraid to speak out and act out of could have flown directly from Vietnam to Canada, he "In the beginning..." was the beginning of the end. peace...Help us to change you.... returned to America because he feels committed to the Milwaukee's Underground Lift Society, a mixed media "O God, who is organizing to bring some sanity, "mess" in this country. ere I want to be presentation by Bob Reitman, John Sahli and Ron some love, some understanding among the people of at," he said* Horbinski closed the evening. the nations of the world, help us to love...Help us At ti their to love freedom...Help us to love peace...Help us stat-- to stop the war...." Rev. R. A0 Peterson "didn't want to be left out of These words were part of a responsive expression of the ball game." Morgan Gibson aided the "refusal to conscience read at the Ecumenical Service c be drafted — to kill — to die and aid an untust war science for Contemporary Times (sponsorec and the mouthings of peace by senile leaders." If the and Laymen concerned about Vietnam) •e a free society — a commu- POEM FOR JOHN MCCULLOUGH: First Baptist Church on Wednesday, M stance, they will create a society ol CHANNEL 4 NEWSCASTER purpose of the service was to emc He compared the Selective Service to men and to demonstrate a feeling n's death camps0 He apologized for offering 03 jht the poison Three hundred and fifty people, filling the church to jjllfacs to these boys in exchange for their draft car knot swelling capacity, were witness to th "Flower children are not going to bring peace," n|| young men freed themselves or said. st, then by turning in their draft cards lips like vomit. Conscience Aw

Rev0 R. A. Peterson jailed But you still go on for an awakening of consc an I don't you, John presume that I can speak t plies that your conscience is not already awake...To some smiling over reports extent and to some degree we have said and done of poisoned crops those things which have ex -science. and suicide squads We must awaken the cor -Unity in and the number which we do our other things.. * awaken the consciences of slaughtered Cong. of the people with whom John Gilman, a pea. e, "looks Come on, John at life from a more scienH irbach." convince us Quoting Martin Luther K not how long one lives but how well one lives'...how much with gasping children did you sacrifice of your for who lost arms, breasts, and balls the rest of mankind." Before mos, in th American furnace the Champion of peasantry, of) anti­ war prophet, Gilman stated r apd ype springs eternal. Good are one in the same th Ri c Oilman added to the per e ac­ Michael Cullen, manager of Casa Maria, turned in Show us the light cession with his guitar* Morgan G rcic his draft card last January. He faces possible prison at the end of the tunnel: read some contemporary poetry. Morgc yis~ I or even deportation to his native Ireland for this act, ualizing the "joy beneath see which will br jj|ut he only "wishes I was a better man." He has us your standard oil through because wheneve llijind his vision and wants to give his chosen country & dow chemical they're happy." -thing — he is willing to face pickets, jail or & fat, gangrene generals

3 th; in the words of St0 Paul, he said, "It's my j Draft Cards And Lilacs happiness to suffer for you... J love you." who will destroy the earth "Draft cards and lilacs—to turn rn on to save it. to the other," was a comparisc Involvement In Love son in the poem Morgan Phil Lemmons, 21, an employee But before you go on a poem entitled Condemno Milwaukee County Mental Hospital, rose and surrendered let me ask you, John: poet which asked that we "Denounce this filthy war/ his draft card. Lemmons felt that "Love can come

Who pushed us into this killing of one anotherc.. Be­ through" — but not through a violent war. John What's it like ware— turn around to face your real enemies—ambition Hagedorn, 20, of 1234 N. 25 St., a draft counselor to touch your wife power, hate and greed." He also read a poem written for the Milwaukee Organizing Committee, turned in by Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. who was to have spoken his card saying "I will be involved in love in every with the ink at the service but because of tension on his campus, sense. Carrying this card cannot be construed as an Stanford, was unable to come. act of love...I have to say no to the draft...yes to of 1 million dead Jim Sorcic read a poem entitled "Sounds of the Earth," joy, happiness, life, and to myself." dripping from your fingers? which was a vision of fear and guilt concerning the Bob Graf, 25a of 1131 Wc Wisconsin Ave., a grad­ war—his fear, our fear, all fear. His second poem, uate student at Marquette in Sociology turned in his "Poem for John McCullough, Chanel 4 Newscaster," draft card, saying he had "longed for this moment of JIM SORCIC was, in reality, written for the entire apathetic Am­ liberation. It's my life which 1 must now liberate and erica that sits back and listens, uninterested, to the and not cooperate with the system which I believe to totals of the dead in Vietnam each evening,. The be wrong and immoral." poem appears on this page. James Eynman, 25, of 1514 N. Jackson, a railroad Rev. Donald King, pastor of the First Baptist Chruch, worker and a member of Youth Against War & Fascism asked us to "Keep your conscience clear," and ex­ said no to the draft because "1 am a revolutionary and plained it is "Better to suffer for well doing if such I'm not giving my life fighting for Wall Street — I'm should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing giving my life fighting against it." He begged us not wrong." If you feel that you would like to aid and abet the Resistance Steven Goldberg, a young man currently working Movement, please sign this statement and mail to Kaleidoscope: with Liberation News Service, and who has just re­ turned from nine months working as a civilian in Viet­ nam with the International Voluntary Service and the STATEMENT OF SUPPORT Committee of Responsibility, explained resistance and why he is a resister. He read a documentary which We stand beside the men who have been indicted for support of recently appeared in LOOK magazine and which draft resistance. If they are sentenced, we, too, must be sentenced. showed a Viet Cong to be like us — human beings. If they are imprisoned, we will take their places and will continue to use what means we can to bring this war to an end. While in Vietnam, Steve received a 2-S classification We will not stand by silently as our government conducts a crim­ (student deferment) draft card. He burned it. When inal war. We will continue to offer support as we have been he returned to his home in Chicago he burned every­ doing to those who refuse to serve in Vietnam and to those indicted thing that had to do with the selective service. "Re­ men and all others who refuse to be passive accomplices in war sistance," he said, "grows out of consciousness." crimes. The war is illegitimate and our actions are legitimate. Consciousness of the world around you, that the use of any means of force is not right. That the issue of this war is greater than one war in one small country« The beliefs of resisters, Steve explained, are beliefs (Signature) in simple things — love, and the belief that no man should have the right to kill another man. "The act (Name - please print) (Address) Page 4 May 24 - June 6, 1968 KALEIDOSCOPE

WHO ARE THEY ?

Dear Editor: Jqst a few short words about the concerned citizens com­ mittee* Just who the hell do I HATE ! these people think they are? I have lived on the east side Dear Editor: all my 1 ife and I like the I am sending this letter with change that has taken place. love and affection, and great IF they are concerned citizens God, I am laughing at you! they should be concerned about I am laughing at your inabil­ their country and be concerned ity to see out of those great about brotherhood and peace. big eyes of yours! FRANK SANFILIPPO You write about trying to Milwaukee love and understand our fellow man. You say we must open our fucking eyes. Goddamn you — you should open your fucking eyes. Who the hell are you to tell me this thing? Me, a lifesize model of hate, passion and great God, lonliness. I walk down the streets of this carnival city with its ex­ plosions of cars, dogs, color, great God, all kinds of color and great herds of sailors char­ ging for the kill, and I see INNER CORE SERIES your people selling their paper. I buy one, do they ask me to Dear Editor: | buy them a drink? Hell no! W e were extremely pleased D i a1 I ask them? No, why with the inner core series pre­ should I — they didn't see me. sented on Channel 10. We're j hate your long hair, your glad some people in the area beards, your clothes. Most of are taking an active part in all your freedom of spirit. I the cause of Civil Rights, and NIW BLUES also deeply love these things becoming involved in various that make you different than programs. On the other hand, Dear Kaleidoscope: me, because you are what I certa in po lit icians, i n pa rt ? c- Just thought that you and a want to be. ular, Mayor Henry Maier and few people in Milwaukee might My mind and body are bound Pol ice Chief Harold Brier, after be interested in knowing how by chains of prideful selfwill agreeing to appear on the we're doing out here. First of that were put in place and series, later reneged. We are all, we changed our name. It's locked by ideas of people who wondering if they feel degraded now the A. B. Sky (Blues) Band. exist in another time. by sharing T.V. time with a Second, the people at the Av­ My lord and master is that Negro? al on Ballroom have, so to speak ath er time. Great god it's THE STAFF OF FOCAL "taken us under their wing." funny. Just think, a thing POINT BOOKSTORE T hey are managing us in the such as time can bind me and area and are letting us reherse make me cry tears that are TAUGHT TO KILL and record at the Avalon any drowning that part of me that time we want. We are playing should live. Dear Editor: at the Straight Theatre on You know what? It will die. We are taught in America Haight Street Sunday May 5th LOVE TOO STIFF Thatthingfhat is charm, beauty that we are all part of a free with the Youngbloods and three and truth a 11 wrapped up in I democratic society. That some other local groups. We will one world, Me. The me of Dear Editor: choose to defend our "ideals" be working at the Avalon and this body will die in itsTcage In response to JCN's letter- is right in the eyes of the ma* Carousel Ba 11 rooms soon. in the dark pit of this, our you want to use my column to jority. That some choose to Nothing at the Fillmore yet. time!! wipe off certain existential strengthen the whole of human­ That's about it so far. Just areas. Go ahead and do \t-~ I blame you for its death. ity through their varied works want to thank you again for al I I won't mind. Mourn it well, because it will is one of America's professed the support you gave us in Mil­ J said I would take on the haunt you in the eyes of the ideals. That some choose to waukee. Good luck with the pope or any Zen bitch that got living dead you see walking be men of goodwill and to seek paper and the whoieMilwaukee in my road, and ! will, i can the streets. T h e y are the peace is an accepted ideal. movement. prove to you I am an extremely clean, wel 1 - bred, chu rch -gp in g T h a t some choose not to kill HAWLEY, DENNY, SKINNY high Zen Master if you will clods of flesh and bone. Some or serve that part of a govern­ & TERRY (The New Blues) come out with your horns with­ of them died before they were ment that builds or supports or drawn or just come out, even out of the womb. directs an operation of war is with horns up. I can still dc Great God, before they were considered criminal — then we if. born someone should have told all must agree that we are In response to TL's letter them what to expect — then part of a slave society, a die- a bo u t our Love Army. You they could have aborted the t a t o r s h i p type of two-faced OBSCENE failed to read part of the col­ flesh and bone part of existence. government A government PHOTOGRAPHER umn. I made a very careful Their lives are like a plant that is so unsure of its ideals point that anybody who takes that never feels the warmth of that it must force its citizens Dear Editor: part in love making for a time the sun or drinks the life giving to kill. If we are rightfully Jim Bowers should have been and still hasn't fallen in love juices of rain. waging a war to defend our arrested a long time ago. Not is too stiff and hard for us to 1 am not dead yet, but I a country/ then we would or for the possession of the neg­ save at this time. sinking fast. You preach love should not have to resort to atives as stated in your article and understanding — now put # We have a group of Zen punishing people for not agree­ on page 17 of 14 (pornog­ it to practice. raphy is in the eye of the Masters in Milwaukee, but we ing with our methods of "freeing Help to pull me out of this beholder), but rather for trying can't save everybody* Some other peoples," If the money/ quicksand of a lost time. You to pass himself off as a photo- are too hard to join our Love power establ ishment has to de­ really can, you know, with stroy lives in order to "teach" grapher. There is more to unit Army. I just two words, Need and Want. being a photographer than being We try to work with every­ them our way of life — then We need you and want you. able to put film into a camera body but some are not ready how valid is that way of life? Now, you open your fuckfng and knowing which button to for our Love Army yet. Our We certainly should clean up eyes. I'm drowning, goddamnit, push, and apparently that's all love army is shaping up nicely- the mess in our own back yard. and you can't see me. Why? he knows how to do — tech­ bet ter than I expected from Suppressing ideals is not a sign You can't see me because nically everything else in those Milwaukee* of a good government. you are all too busy talking I plunk shots of his you published ZEN MASTER WATT i KM.P. about love and understanding. was bad, bad, bad. My advice Milwaukee STEPHEN CARTER to Bowers is: become a photo­ Milwaukee grapher before you claim to be one. MICHAEL W. SCHUDROWITZ Milwaukee More Letters on Page 17

Address LETTERS to the Editor to Kaleidoscope P00„ Box 5457 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 'KALEIDOSCOPE May 24 - June 6, 1968 Page 5

Harrassment Continues Where Were They? The campaign of harrassment (It is irrelevant, but inter­ against Kaleidoscope and the esting, to note that almost no An effort to demonstrate UWM people connected with Kalei­ one sees a vice squad officer, support for the efforts of Mar­ doscope continues. The most or is busted by one, during quette students to end institu­ recent target was Bob Reitman, daylight. Night creatures they, tional racism in the nations' poetry editor. like predatory animals.) largest Catholic University The day of the Kaleidoscope A lawyer was contacted, and failed Friday, May 17. The bust, the Milwaukee Journal a meeting was set up in the rally, which was discussed and HRHmOff Green Sheet carried a story on lawyer's office with Reitman, agreed to by RESPOND, the the death of Hippie. The Jour­ several members of the morality student group leading the Mar­ nal reporter, Wade Mosby, police including the Captain, quette fight, was intended to based the story on interviews and attorney James Shellow. demonstrate sol idarity among with Reitman, John Kois and Basically, they wanted the Milwaukee area students on the PublKi JohnSahli. Reitman was quoted names of two officers mentioned issue of institutional racism. by Mosby as saying: by Reitman. Reitman refused, UWM student activists—MOC, « "I have heard of a police­ and that was that. SDS and NAACP - were con­ man who turns on...I know a I don't know about you, but tacted, leaflets were distributed, ||||x vice squad officer who took I'll sleep bettertonight knowing and hundreds of personal con­ pornographic pictures to his that somewhere in the Milwau­ tacts made. Arrangements were cottage and plastered them all kee police force are two human also made for four members of over the walls." beings, one who likes a little RESPOND's steering committee to address the rally. The image-conscious vice pornography and one who knows No more than a dozen con­ squad, led by Captain Zairnak, the joy of getting stoned. cerned students showed up at became concerned. Nothing Incidentally, Reitman sug­ the rally site, and the pro­ bothers the morality police more gested that the Captain might ceedings were quickly can­ than the thought that they, too, be able to better get his mes­ cel led. The Marquette students are merely mortal. So two sage across to young people if returned to their campus, re­ detectives were dispatched to he agreed to an interview with porters put away their pencils Reitman's home. At 1:15 in Kaleidoscope. The Captain and paper, and an hour later the morning. To ask him to said his interviews have to be squads of police were seen appear at the Vice Squad of­ okayed in advance by Chief still looking for the rally they fice the next afternoon. Breier. came to 'control.1 2nd Workshop March The second Writer's Workshop will be held Thursday, May 23 at 7:30 PM at the First Baptist Against Church, 911 E. Ogden Av. GEEZ, CHRIST! At the first workshop, held May 8th at the church, about Censorship 15 writers were present. They read some of their works and They came. One hundred The police presented no hassle, Our man in heaven, Christ T. Seraphim, has once again dis­ the others offered comments and and fifty to two hundred beau­ and seemed intimidated by the played his amazing versatality, changing roles faster than the pony criticism to those who read. tiful people risked a possible size of the group. At the express changed horses I Helpful suggestions such as bust Saturday, May 18th, for Safety Building Spokesmen, May 13, 8:30 AM, a beautiful, groovy looking young Negress how to go about publishing your the sake of Kaleidoscope. talked with the Captain of the was brought before his honor charged with prostitution. The judge works were given and the group The group met at noon in first district. They demanded asked her attorney, "Have I HAD this young lady before?" Does feels it is off to a fine start front of Kaleidoscope's offices. that Chief Breier show why his honor get a discount? in helping fellow writers with It had been hoped that five Kaleidoscope has been singled In a case involving a Negro charged with battery against his their work. hundred could be gotten out, out for harrassment, while book wife, the judge changed from SOCIAL WORKER to GREAT WHITE but the crowd numbered two sellers at the so-called 'skin LIBERAL. It came out that the man was on welfare and failed to Clerg/ & hundred at most. Spirits were shops'on the Avenue had full report for work. The defendent explained that he was sick and high, and despite the possible police immunity,. his social worker told him to stay home. Christ replied, "I don't hassle, most marchers wanted The timing couldn't have care what any welfare worker told you—I told you to go to work I " Layman to sell the so-called 'dirty' is­ been better. The Armed Forces It came out in the testimony that during one of the couples' mar­ sue. Day Parade was also downtown ital arguments the word 'nigger' was used. Christ T. almost blew Anti-War The march proceeded west on Saturday, and the contrast be­ through the roof, "What did you say?" The defendent replied Brady, South on Van Buren, tween the Kaleidoscope people that he used the word nigger. Chris shook his head and said "Why Group West on State to the Journal and the heavily armed soldiers did you use that term that offends so many people, including Building, South to Wisconsin was beautiful. While the Kal­ MYSELF." Milwaukee Clergy and Lay­ Ave., and back to the Safety eidoscope people and friends men Concerned about Vietnam Building. Besides papers, signs fought for freedom, the machines is a relatively new group, with were carried with such slogans of war and oppression roared some good programs going. as "Hands off Kaleidoscope, " overhead. Members oppose the Vietnam Many friends of Kaleidoscope have complained about our lack "Support Freedom of the Press," Some of the marchers went war and, further, the US pol­ of some form of humor. We have been offered comic strips, "Vice Squad is Obscene," and * back to the Avenue after the icies which led to the war and satire, and joke columns, but none seemed adequate; Kaleido­ "Kaleidoscope Lives, Fight march broke up at the Safety perpetuate oppression of Amer­ scope readers, we felt, would want a unique brand of humor. Censorshfp." building and had a rather un­ icans, particularly the poor and It took a while, but we finally hit upon an idea that will, At the Journal,demands were usual experience. Milwaukee black. we feel, satisfy almost everyone. To our already illustrious presented. The group asked Police Chief, Harold "hogwash" list of columnists, Kaleidoscope is proud to add the name of Clergymen are being sought that the Journal support Kalei­ Breier was approached to buy Christ Seraphim, Funny Judge. Beginning now, each issue to train for draft counseling of doscope, and oppose any at­ a paper. He remained silent will contain the Best of Christ, quotes culled from actual court­ those who conscientiously op­ tempts at censorship. The issue and merely scowled at the room proceedings. pose the war and refuse to is not one of possible obscenity, sellers. MANY HAPPY RE­ Those who wish to join the fun are invited to sit in Mr. enter the military. but rather whether the press in TURNS, CHIEF BREIER. Seraphim's courtroom, take notes, and submit their list of quotes Weekly vigils for peace and America is truly free. Thanks and love to all people to Kaleidoscope for inclusion in this column. reparation in Vietnam are spon­ Sales were good on Wisconsin who helped. We need you, sored by the group each Sat. Avenue, and over sixty dollars and Milwaukee needs Kaleido­ from noon to 1 PM in front of was raised to support the paper. scope. PEACE. the Post Office downtown. Ecumenical Services of Con­ Christ spotted a possible fire hazzard and yelled out, "Sir, in science, such as the one on the back — would you take that cigarette out of your mouth?" May 15 (reported elsewhere in &taff By the way, the toughies from the county sheriff's office regularly this issue) will be offered. puff stogies right in front of his honor. Speakers are available from KALEIDOSCOPE Says the judge: "We call 'em as we see 'emI" the organization for community P.O. Box 5457 Milwaukee, Wis. 53211 Christ explained to an attorney, "One million people come groups who can speak on issues Phone: 276-6425 through this court to see and hear the cases and the defendents relating to the war. EDITOR . . . John Kois ART Rick Wetzel every year." a good Nielson. In the future there w ? 11 be ASSISTANT. . John Sahl i DRAGONLADY. Linda Akin Explaining to a defendent who cashed worthless checks, "This programs for high school students POETRY . . .Bob Reitman CIRCULATION.Dennis Gall is what is known as the con game. There aren't many nice guys and Milwaukee's Spanish- CALENDAR. . Craig Kois DEVELOPMENTS. . Ron H. in town any more, everyone's got an angle." speaking community. If you're PHOTO. .Gary Bailseiper DISTRIBUTION . . GaryW. In answer to the complex problems of marriage, Chris went right interested in any of these pro­ Love & flowers to all supporters who have helped us be­ to the heart of the problem, and told a young Negro to "Get out grams, contact any of the fol­ fore, during and after the bust. Love roses and orchids of the house today." The simple solutions are best. lowing people: to Janis, Beverly Beautiful, Mole, Donna, Doug, Tod, Finally, Christ T. Seraphim demonstrated his great ability as a Rev. R. A. Peterson, Chair­ and ail the lovely people. Kristel wishes to express debator. His honor got into an argument with attorney Dominic man - 258-5232. special gratitude to the Planned Parenthood people for Frinzi over the setting of bail for Sylbester Taylor, a Negro. Mary Lou Massignani, Field their assistance. Frinzi argued that since the defendent had already posted $8,000 Secretary - 933 - 3883. bail on another charge, bail should be nominal, if at all: Thomas Mansheim, Treasurer, Con't. on P. 12 342 - 3094. Page 6 May 24 - June 6, 1968 KALEIDOSCOPE COP'S THE STEPS

by Kathleen Wiegner WORLD OF THE WALKING THE BEAT, Gene Radano, World Publishing Company. PENTAGON THE STEPS OF THE PENTAGON, Norman Mailer, Today the cop is every liberal's villain. For the Harper's Magazine, March Issue, 75$ victims of his brutality he seems an animal out of a control. Since the Columbia University riots the New Two Days In The Life 1 York City ACLU has proposed a number of recomen- In the end , I left the Pentagon last October without dations aimed at leashing the mad dog: legible name getting arrested. It was an utterly arbitrary decision; tags as substitutes for police badge numbers, public I was sitting with a group of college friends huddled address equipment to warn the crowd of police action, together around a small bonfire on the steps of the elimination of the flying wedge charge, the nightstick Mall, surrounded by MP's with drooping bayonets and and the blackjack at demonstrations. With this picture concealed yawns. Someone was trying to strum a guitar in the public mind Gene Radane'sbook is a disquieting on the other side of the fire, but it was out of tune one. His is a portrait of the cop as victim, not of with the rapid changes in the autumn climate. the law breakers but of the system within which he hAy friends were discussing what classes they'd have must work. This world is not firmly divided between to miss Monday and Tuesday if they were to decide to good and evil but is another grim grey bureaucratic be arrested; I was cold and dirty and sore from two hell that other Americans have grown used to in their days of sitting on hard blacktop, and I wanted most own lives. In writing an expose of this dim world of of all a hot shower and a bed. When I left, some the city policeman, Rodano has written as well a par­ five minutes before the final clean-up at midnight, tial answer to what turns ordinary men into men who there were still two hundred stalwarts on the steps, pump bullets into a twitching corpse for all to view -<®CX»*©* singing and laughing quietly. The atmosphere was on national television. almost mellow. They were hauled away one by one at midnight sharp, on schedule but nobody protested The cop's world is a mirror world reflecting the system very much; the MP's were almost gentle this last time. within which we all live. It is a world where decent MARCUSE Both soldiers and demonstrators seemed taken with the instincts are subverted by the desire to "get along" ceremony of the occassion. and "get ahead." The individual cop emerges as a Perhaps I should have stayed on until the very end, cynical product of this world of petty jealousies, in­ for the final gesture of being taken hostage. For peopl e ternal rivalries, corruption from within and without, INFLUENCE like me — who have never been arrested, who have dishonesty—and he takes out his anger on the people MARCUSE: THE THEORY OF THE PRACTICE, George never spent a night in jail — there is still and always whom he encounters in his work. The best policeman Tolmie. a gnawing fear of the unknown and unimaginable; I soon finds himself roughing up draft dodgers and Negroes am made less free by that than fear. For each small not because he hates them (although it is true that (Editor's note: In their coverage of German student prohibition that I encounter and accept, I introduce enough of them do) but because it is "the thing to do." demonstrations, the Washington Post and The New York Times noted the heavy influence of Herbert Marcuse in another element of fear in my life, and that h the Morality Instincts German student theoretical development. Marcuse, in genesis of becoming unfreee For Norman Mailer, the arrestee, as for the 19 year-old draft-card burner, the The premise of Radano's book is that "As a man One Dimensional Man, speaks of a non-tolerant attitude crucial leap has already been made, and they have walks through life he constantly adjusts his point of toward media which disseminate myths or popularize status quo authoritarian rationale. For example, in seen the enemy from up close: he is not nearly so Con't. on P0 15 the U.SC/ Reader's Digest publishes the Eisenhower terrifying as he was when he was still a faceless

justifications for U.SC - Asian entanglements. The spectre. How To Stay Out Of The Army: German students, by structuring their protest on the The MP who arrested Norman Mailer was, to his conservative affiliates of the Springer enterprise, have surprise, "just a simple boy in an Army suit with a evidently transferred theory into practice. George look of horror in his eye." That single realization is DRAFT LAW: Tolmie is a student at the University of Bridgeport in at once both exhilarating and deeply saddening. It Connecticut.) is terribly important to know that soldiers too are human (did we need experience to confirm the fact?); but the YOUR RIGHTS "Their Western saint is American philosopher Herbert fact that they are human makes them in their roles as Marcuse," — The Sunday Star, Washington, April 14. soldiers all the more intolerable. My instinctive re­ by Dennie Van Tassel action at the Pentagon to the sight of young scared More and more accounts are coming out of Germany faces (and many black faces among them) wearing HOW TO STAY OUT OF THE ARMY: A GUIDE TO and are being reported in the U.S. press of the strong swelling black gas masks was and remains one of dis- YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE DRAFT LAW, Conrad Lynn, and vibrant "New Left" developing in Germany. The - belief. I simply cannot comprehend all the forces New York: Monthly Review Press, $1.25 fervor and dedication of the participants in this New that degraded those soldiers. Maybe I don't even Left is a constant source of marvel to these same re­ want to know. The Potential draftee should become an expert on ports. A Purely Existential Situation his own draft situation. The guy who doesn't want to The leading figure of this new German renaissance resist the draft has no real worries and he will be in the Post-Hitler Germany, which had virtually throt­ What happened at the Pentagon during those two turned into cannon fodder before he can say LBJ. For tled a left tradition extending back to Marx himself, October days was somewhat less than real but more those who wish to escape the draft, however, Lynn's is Herbert Marcuse. than artifice. It was guerrilla theatre on a grand book can be a first active step in avoiding the draft. Why is Herbert Marcuse exerting such an intensive scale; it was, as Mailer stated two days before the The author, Conrad Lynn, is a noted civil rights influence on the new movement? Why is it that the March, a purely existential situation. Anyone with and draft attorney and a firm opponent of the Vietnam youth of Germany are taking up the banners of Mar­ a sentimental attachment to reality didn't believe that War. He says, in his introduction, "so that those who cuse? The answers to these questions are complex and the Pentagon could be entered and liberated. Once in­ wish to resist may be aided in having all their rights extensive. Marcuse, author of Eros and Civilization, side, most of us would not have known what to do. that might help them to refuse induction..." represents a return to the grandeur of the early Marx, Those who eventually reached the steps and stayed on The book provides a simple guide to the law, and who attempted in his writings to embody in a scientific for two weary days and nights surrounded by bayonets explains all the grounds for deferment or exemption. fashion almost every Utopian ideal and the passionate could not have told you why they were there, or why Once the initiate has read this lucid book, he can goals of poets. Marx was hardly ever to be found they were risking getting their heads smashed to hold read the Handbook for Conscientious Objectors avail­ against these goals. Instead, he offered to the beleag- onto two feet of Pentagon blacktop. able from the War Resisters League (5 Beekman Street, ured dreaming and suffering mankind a scientific cri­ By any objective criterion — the political signifi­ New York 10038) for $1. The person who really wants tique of the society which stood between the poet and cance, the personal moral absolution—it wasn't worth to learn the draft laws in order to avoid the draft his dreams, a scientific critique of the method of it. We could only have told you that it seemed fit­ laws in order to avoid the draft will also buy the Sel­ reaching these goals, and finally a scientific critique ting at the time, it seemed like the only thing to do ective Service Regulations for $5. from the U.S. Gov­ of the goals themselves in order to make sophisticated under the circumstances. Having not the power—and, ernment Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. that which was only crudely or provincially conceived. in some cases, not the desire—to seize control of the American military machine, we felt that a massive ges­ Magic Method Stifled Spirit ture was the next best thing, a gesture which would None of these books will provide a magic method With the death of Lenin, a biblical style of inter­ bring home to the soldiers, to ourselves, and (almost of beating the draft because there are no instant sol­ preting Marx began to set in, stifling the very life secondarily) to the American public the real stakes that utions. Possessing a very obscene tatoo or being gay blood in the West of the appeal of Marx to the broad are involved in a society revolting against itself. come about as close as you can get to magic. masses of the people. It was this stifled spirit which And that's exactly what it was — a gesture without Yet Conrad offers sound advice to the person who became the manure from which Fascism and Nazism external significance, but with enormous meaning for wishes to resist the draft by the deferement-exemption- developed and on which it depended. It became all the actors themselves. It was a kind of political melo­ delay route. The most important advice he offers is the easier for Hitler and Mussolini to accentuate the drama in which each of us played out our roles to the the following: If you wish to avoid the draft call aggressive and brutal aspects of the social order. Soon, hilt: too perfect an archetype to be real, and yet it without defending a felony prosecution in court, re­ the spirit of Marx began starched and stifled in order was. I remember standing at the base of the 50 foot turn all forms on time, know and take advantage of to suit the needs of party organizations — especially well below the Mall when the first ropes were thrown all exemptions and deferements, appeal all adverse those sterile superficial leaders at the top of such or­ over by contingents which had swept past the MP's decisions, and do not accept advice as to your proper ganizations. and entered the Mall from another side. course unless it comes from an organizational draft Marcuse has taken Marx back to the poets, has re­ The ropes dangled to the base of the walls for sev­ counselor or a lawyer familiar with this field0 joined the scientific critique in response to the yearnings eral seconds before we realized what we were supposed Conrad Lynn has enclosed some sample forms in his of the ages. Chief among these poetic-scientific types to do. We began to chant and cheer as the first man book for the usual type of letters which need to be was Sigmund Freud. Marcuse has exhaustively inter­ grabbed the rope to his chest and began scaling the written to draft boards in the course of securing the related the systems of Marx and his conception of so­ walL Someone off in a corner began singing "La classification which will best protect any selected from cial oppression with that of Freud and his theories of Marseillaise" and others of us, resurrecting long-buried induction. repression. Both Marx and Freud (within the frame­ phrases learned in fancy high school French classes, Clogged Draft System work of their systems) conceived of the existing order began blurting out the words. The ironies in the cir­ of culture, which grows up out of a long history, as cumstances were enormous, but we were too busy being As Lynn not£s, it is well for all beleaguered youth the result of the brutalization of mankind. 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by Kristel Higrass Drug Store Sex work, to a degree, and any of them is better than the 90% chance of pregnancy you risk if you use no According to Wisconsin Law, it is "obscene" to Not all methods of birth control require prescriptions method at all. The best (most effective) methods of dispense contraceptives to unmarried people or to ad­ or even medical advice. One of the most widely used birth control can be obtained only through a doctor vertise for sale birth control devices. Why it is not contraceptive products is the CONDOM, or rubber. (unless you know someone). obscene if one is married is beyond cognizance. It It can be purchased at any drugstore for about 20$. A is somebody's responsibility to inform the unmarried condom is a thin, strong sheath made of rubber and is Pill's Perfection about methods of birth control — if only to keep worn by the male to prevent sperm from entering the The pill is 99.7% effective. They have come the another baby from dying of starvation or another mother vagina. Often the woman will use a contraceptive closest to meeting the standards set by medical auth­ from committing infanticide. Everyone talks about the foam, cream or jelly to add further protection. If orities for the ideal contraceptive. In most instances population explosion, promiscuity among hippies, and used correctly and consistently, the condom is 98% you will experience no discomforts from them, as has what a shame it is that so many babies are unwanted effective. For those who "vibrate" and donBt use this been erroneously reported in many "women's" maga­ and unloved—but very few people try to do anything for every intercourse the percentage is lowered to 86%. zines. Taken on a regular schedule of either 20 or about it. Failures are due to the tearing of the rubber or its 21 days a month, depending on the type prescribed, As evidenced in a recent article in Kaleidoscope slipping off after climax. Since a condom must be the pills will cost you only about $2 per month. Some­ (No. 13), alot of young people are getting the clap. applied just before union, some feel it awkward to times, the first month of taking the pill, women will Venereal disease is spread through intercourse with a use and that it reduces the spontaneity and naturalness experience nausea, headache or an alterated menstrual carrier of the disease. Pregnancy is spread through of the sex act. flow, and some have complained of swollen bosoms, but the lack of education about birth control methods. We In the last issue of Kaleidoscope, EMKO foam was these discomforts are usually mild and disappear with mentioned in an article regarding the cartoon contest continued use. If you want to take the pill, see they are currently running. This foam is packed under your doctor. He will probably give you a pelvic pressure and is inserted with an applicator before sex. exam and pap smear and then prescribe a refiliable

The sketches here show how it is inserted into the prescription covering one year0 If you cannot afford vagina. this, the birth control clinics (Planned Parenthood) will help you obtain contraceptives either at a fee Sketches suited to your income, or, if indigent, for free. This method is 95-96% effective. It can be bought The INTRAUTERINE DEVICE method differs from the without a prescription and you need only know how to other methods because the woman bears no responsibility plunge the applicator into your vagina (similiar to the for its effectiveness. It is a small, soft plastic device insertion of a tarn pax) in order to use this method. (see sketches) that is inserted into the uterus by a The foam is effective for a few hours after insertion physician and left in place for as long as a woman so that, if you can PLAN your vibrations, it isn't wants to prevent pregnancy. No other protection is necessary to hassle and insert it just previous to sex. needed once the IUD is in place. Once inserted, you Vaginal creams and jellies, like Emko, are 95-96% aren't even aware it's there. No one knows exactly effective, are inserted with an applicator, and are how it works, but they do know that it is 95 - 98% approximately the same cost. A bottle or jar of these effective. It can be left in place for years without is about $2.50 and can be used for several applica­ harm. tions (about 12$ per use). After the initial cost of the IUD itself and the med­ ical fee for the insertion, there are no additional ex- pences (a medical checkup is advisable at least once a year, but this should be standard procedure for all women, whether they use a birth control method or not). One of the disadvantages of the IUD is that the woman must examine herself once a week to make sure it's still in place. Some women, particularly CHOOSING A METHOD those who have had no children, are unable to retain the IUD. These women also often complain of cramps know that sometimes, often when least expected, Vaginal suppositories (Norforms) are a hassle. They and backaches during the first few days after insertion. "vibrations" occur and all of us have the tendency to must be inserted in sufficient time to melt before the Usually these discomforts vanish within a week. heed the vibrations. Before the next vibra­ sex act, and are only, per a Planned Parenthood re­ Diaphragm Insertion tion, I hop e you will heed the advice of the magic search survey, about 80% effective. They do work, Kristel and take some kind of birth control precaution. though, and any form of protection is better than none. A diaphragm is inserted into the vagina by the There is also available, without prescription, vag­ woman prior to intercourse (see sketches). This method Hassle Vibrations inal tablets which you moisten slightly and insert. A is a highly effective (88-98%) method of birth control Obviously, the best way to avoid pregnancy is to foam is produced by the tablet. These must be in­ involving the use of a contraceptive cream or jelly in abstain from sexual intercourse, but that could inter­ serted into the vagina in sufficient time for the tablet combination with the diaphragm. It is made of soft fere with the "vibrations." to disiritegrate before the sex act. They have been rubber, shaped like a bowl, with a flexible spring at One of the most often stated reasons for a girls' known to cause burning in some women. How long it the outer edge. The diaphragm itself is cheap, about failure to use birth control is that they do not want takes for a tablet to disintegrate is not specified and $3.00, and the cost of the contraceptive jelly, re­ to submit to the doctor's examination of their vagina. there are no figures available on the effectiveness of quired by this method is about 12$ for each use. The Although it is advisable to have a pelvic exam at least the tablets. diaphragm must be measured or fitted by a physician in once a year, and it is usually necessary to undergo Another method is a sponge and fo am application. order for it to be effective. Women who have a strong this exam for some birth control methods (the pill, the Spermicidal powder or fluid is placed on a small, aversion to inserting this into their vagina obviously IUD) not all methods of birth control require that you moistened sponge, which is squeezed to develop a foam. visit the doctor. Besides the possible unpleasantness of The sponge is placed into the vagina and must remain the exam, doctors are expensive, and because of state in place six hours after intercourse. No figures are law, there are still some puritanical doctors who re­ available as to its effectiveness, but it is used suc­ fuse to dispense contraceptives to the unmarried. Ail cessfully by some women. The bulkiness of the sponge professions have liberals, of course, and some doctors and drainage from vagina is sometimes a hassle. will prescribe contraceptives without the exam or any The COITUS INTERRUPTUS (withdrawal) method re­ hassle, but unless you know who, finding this beautifu I quires no prescription, no doctor, nothing but a lot of doctor may be a problem. will power. The man withdraws his penis before emis­ A prefect contraception method is one that requires sion of semen. It requires that the man practice great the least change in the woman's habits and attitudes. self control, though even then some sperm may escape The less it interferes, the better. Any method that before the climax. I do not think this method is very will not be happy with this method. Also, like the requires major readjustment on your part may cause effective, although statistical studies have shown with­ condom, it may interfere with your sex life because you to resent having to use it. Price is also a factor. drawal to be relatively so. Some semen may be ale- you must insert it just prior to intercourse. None of the methods are very expensive — in fact, posited into the woman without the man being aware Another method that is available through your doc­ most can probably be obtained free through various of it. This method is also unadvisable because it tor is a cervical cap. This is a small, deep cup agencies and clinics. limits the sexual gratification.of the partners. placed directly over the cervix to block sperm from Any method which is unpleasant, uncomfortable or Coca-Cola Douche entering the uterus. Those made of rubber can be embarrassing — for whatever reason — is not right for worn only 24 hours but those made of metal or plastic you. If you don't like a method, don't try to force A Coca-Cola douche will not really work. I mean, may be left in place between menstrual periods. This yourself to use it. It is important that when you em­ I know that you've heard it will—but it'll only stick method is not used much in America because women ploy a method of birth control, you use it carefully up your innards. Sperm enters the cervical canal here seem unable to learn insertion and removal tech­ and regularly. No matter how effective your method within 90 seconds after ejaculation and the chances of niques. is — if you' forget to use it — it won't work. your flushing out the guilty sperm immediately after A doctor can give you the best (i.e., most effective) intercourse, either with coke, vinegar or water, are The Rhythm Method methods of birth control: the pill and the IUD (Intra mighty slim. But, as was said before, any method is The most controversial method of birth control is the uterine device). Your own doctor, or one at a birth better than none, and clinical studies have shown it rhythm method. According to clinical studies, it is control clinic, or at your hospital or health department, to be 50 - 70% effective. 50-80% effective. This method depends on abstinence can help you choose which method is best for you. Right now you're probably wondering what the hell from intercourse during the time of the month when A doctor can also fit you for a diaphragm, explafn I mean when I say 50% effective or whatever. When the woman is fertile. Because many women have ir­ the rhythm method and tell you about those birth con­ studies are made the clinics making them (my figures regular menstrual cycl es it is difficult to accurately trol devices that do not require a medical prescription. are from the National Planned Parenthood Council) determine the time of egg release. Success with this take one-hundred women and have them use a method. method may require abstinence for as long as half a They study these women for one year. They figure month. Self-taught "rhythm," haphazardly practiced, their percentages on the number of women that are not is one of the most ineffective methods of birth control. pregnant at the end of that year. The variances (as Three commonly-known biological facts provide the i n the condom - 86 - 98% effective) represent those scientific basis for the rhythm method: (1) A woman figures adjusted for those who did not use their birth normally produces only one egg during each menstrual control device all of the time. An added thought — cycle; (2) This egg has an active life of only about if you use no birth control method at all, there is a 24 hours and it is only during this one day that it can 90% chance that you will be pregnant within any be fertilized by the male sperm; (3) the male sperm is given year. capable of living for only about 48 hours after it is All of the above methods of contraception require released into the vagina. It is only during this two no more than a visit to the drugstore. 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Tired of pontificating in classroom and KALEIDOSCOPE. Reason won't save us anyhow, though it eases us through anarchy. My life has become a paper tornado that has carried me halfway to Oz. Poet Dean Gardner's witch cackles past on a broomstick. Bye bye dust bowl. Bye bye Schlitz. Bye bye Mayor Model City. On to the Yellow Brick Road. James Hazard's THIEF OF KISSES blowing in the wind. Just published by Barbara and me, cover by Julia, typed by Dave Porter. Hazard will teach at UWM next fall, currently in Oshkosh Zen Tao. Bank cashier and Allen Ginsberg dig Barbara's SAY MY NAME. My PILGRIM BONES rebounding from publisher to publisher. ^Daughter Julia's going to Shimer College next fall. Successful student-faculty revolution there last year. President ousted; new one writes lovely letters to new students and parents. Bye bye Riverside's uptight rulers and beautiful vibing ethnic buddies. Eight year old daughter Lucy told Petronius and Ric Oilman, "I'm not a micro-bopper. I'm a mini-hippie." Snoopie, I guess, is a micro- barker. So much for the family. Forgive ego-gossip. Too tired to pontificate. believe it. Nearly all devoid of any educational value whatso­ Bureaucratic Repression ever — a symptom of bureaucratic surplus repression, over-organ­ More paper, more mail everyday than ten people can read. UWM ization, planning for death of the imagination. See Marcuse's mailbox, all over desk, all over front entrance at home. Help I ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN if you don't understand what I mean. As a kid I wrote for every catalogue and free sample. Now I tell If you do, you will be one up on most university professors who people to stop. If the publishing companies would print as much couldn't care less what Marcuse has to say because he doesn't fit poetry as blurbs for mind-fixing textbooks, America would have a into the curriculum. Revolution never does. Renaissance every week, in every city of more than 10,000 souls. Pontificating again. And the useless campus mail—pounds of unreadable mimeographed There's good mail too. Great letters from Rexroth, McClure, minutes, committee reports, regulations from the deans, you wouldn't Levertov, Bly, Malanga. Receive vivid weekly letters on the Bay scene from poet Ron Silliman (married to Shelly Namerov from Milwaukee)and poems from Allen Ginsberg's father. James Stephens, editor of CRONOPIOS, translated into English Italian translations

THE LAST OF THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL RANGERS01 of my poems thatD.M, Pettinella published in PROSPECTTI (Rome). Stephens' poems more literary than my originals. This is the way English boys learned Latin in Shakespeare's time: translate a Latin bob watt poem into English and from the English (closing the Latin text) make a Latin translation. These are the games poets play in their cor-

respondence0 Also political-philosophical discussions, by mail, with two Marxist scholars, Raya Dunayevskaya and Bertell Oilman (Ric's cousin)o World Strewn COPKILLER, HANGING LOOSE, QUADERNI PIACENTINI and a mound of other little magazines from all over the world have been strewn all over the house by Dan Georgakas, poet and editor of Z anthology of revolutionary poetry, staying with us for a week. Con't. on P. 12

Hello again. Paper going good. Random thoughts, as they come to me: If you face reality, you often become a God. She's a good bull dyke. We need an area to pole vault in our courts. This is urgent. Anybody killing a bird or an idea must come to me or some bird for confession. Each bird carries an idea—the smallest birds often carry the greatest. There is a saving saying, you can kill a man but not an idea. Well I have seen millions of ideas killed,,so what are they talking about? No birds killed with two stones will be our motto. Please stop pulling all them beautiful cows to death. As Dave Neuberg says, cows are just long faced people. We must have synthetic meat. Cows are holy, can't you feel that?

I am just laying random thoughts down—let the reader connect them—to hell with the reader. Who the hell is the reader anyway? Friederick VIII and Rolf Vadar of Western Poldhonia What makes them such experts to begin with. 1 will go one step further and say to hell with anybody who thinks. GEMINI - MAY 22 - June 21: I don't care what school you go to — I graduated from one of Geminians, now that you are back in the ranks of the healthy the best big ten universities and I didn't learn much there, and it is time to get off your "ASSES" and direct your energies neither did you. Where does the reader get all this excellence toward doing your thing. A rolling thing gathers no moss. and self-righteousness. Maybe he doesn't have it. Please your­ self, all you writers. How about the reader's standards; wrecks CANCER -.JUNE 22 - JULY 22: them, I say, give the reader a chance to change their standards. It is a bad period for love in regard to you oversensitive Can^ I am always being approached by people hinting that their ideas, cerians. New love affairs may prove unreliable and expensive. poetry, writing, etc. are better than mine — come ahead and The 30th of May is a day for major accomplishments, but Ju- wreck me with your excellence is my mass message to them. Don't pitor's position to the sun points to disappointments in the just hint you are a heavier artist than I am, come ahead yelling, evening hours. gung ho, at me with your papers flying. Write letters to the paper pointing out my mistakes and how it should be done. I LEO - JULY 23 - AUGUST 23: won't be angry. I may get some good ideas from you. Bearing in mind your excessive generosity Friederick VIM and Some more or less small time cat writes a column for the UWM the Vadar suggest for you to cease throwing away your valuable Post, hinted he is a heavier writer — so be it. I am willing to feelings as uselessly as you have in the past, we see a complete take 10th, 15th or 100th place. All artists, stop hinting, damn and utter drain of your emotions. Begin to seek business before it, come right out yelling and hollering. I can write better than pleasures. Screw but who? Watt — no more sneaky stuff for Milwaukee writers. VIRGO - AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 23: In the interest of all we seriously counsel you male Virgo's to After you get all finished reassuring yourselves that you can .... "be nice." On the 28th, 29th, and 30th of May also write better than Watt, I have something to tell you, that I can't the 4th and 5th of June caution is urged in the resolvement of tell you until you do this. Murmurings have been going on for your personal hang-ups. Have no fear "Blue Cheer" is here. a year or so—let the volcano erupt and the lava flow—let every­ body get their rocks off. I can write better than Watt...so can I ... LIBRA - SEPTEMBER 24 - OCTOBER 23: so can I...so can i: have a sort of celebration. Then you can go You are loveable as a rule — beware, however, as to which to another plateau. Afterwards I will give you a Zen experience member of the species your love is directed to. Except on the which will help you in your own eyes. By attempting to feel su­ 31st of May when you might get away with something. If you perior you are working in the right direction. Nobody, I say no­ are cool, don't be, it will be mistaken for stupidity by those body, can oppose me without getting cured of ego damage or ego closest to you. hang-ups. Con't. on P. 12 Con't. on P. 17 doctors stormed in and heated big blunt Jesus it's beautiful! devils of things — and...and then they Great mother of ap plunged them into her. ..that sizzle... World! and the smell — 1 was vomiting. And KENNETH PATCHEN she died with her eyes an inch out of her You're a bastard M head. And 1 wish you didn by David (Tony) Glover through this profound surrealistic narrative of a is the same man who can write in Cloth of the I don't know how th flight through a shattered and shattering world; Tempest: But I feel drunk al Kenneth Patchen is probably the most impor­ the group of travelers harrassed by snarling dogs, tant creator now living. And I mean creator— war guns, phantoms, and, equally important, O my darling troubles heaven And 1 wish to hell w the labels of "poet," "author" and "artist" are themselves. Through the pages of blood and With her loveliness not inclusive enough to begin to describe his horror, through the confusion and wildly grim O you're a merry I output. At last count he had 29 titles (prose, humor came one main message: this is war and She is made of such cloth And I wish you didn poetry and mixtures of the two) to his credit, he the world that war makes. That the angels cry to see her has made almost 800 cover paintings for special Then I found a bookshop run by an anarchist editions of his work, his poem-painting combin­ who carried alot of usually hard to find titles— Little gods dwell where she moves Because it's too da ations run into the hundreds, and his work has through there I was able to get Sleepers Awake— And their hands open golden boxes appeared in publications ranging all the way from Patchen's second prose masterpiece, now, dam­ For me to lie in. The Saturday Review of Literature and Womans mit, out-of-print. It's an extension of the areas and the quiet truths: Home Companion to Liberation and The Outsider. and methods explored in Moonlight mixtures of She is built of lilacs and candy doves Each of his works is a message from another poem, prose and drawing, reality and hallucin­ And the youngest star wakens in her hair This is a man. You universe — the special Patchen universe. A ation, ugliness and breathtaking beauty. Again universe created by sheer guts and with a shining the design and typography are an integral part She calls me with the music of silver bells and the tender beauty, ir anger and beauty— a universe to make us more of the structure — effects are never used for And at night we step into other worlds his Love Poems: aware of the possibilities of the limited and the sake of fireworks alone, always they add to Like birds flying through red and yellow air battered one that most of us inhabit. and are part of the creative whole. This was Of childhood Do I not deal with I first became aware of Patchen through a a staggering concept, this total use of even When her lips I toi pamphlet by Henry Miller called PATCHEN— mechanical limitations to further the artistip 0 she touches me with the tips of wonder MAN OF ANGER AND LIGHT. (Now out of scheme — the layout and design of these books and the angels cuddle like sleepy kittens So gentle, so warm print, however, most of it was reprinted in an are as much a part of the effect as their con­ At our side Has no sight of hei anthology of Miller's essays called STAND STILL tent. In unity, they create an enticing sym­ 0 the world is a pi LIKE THE HUMINGBIRD.) The pamphlet in­ phonic structure; always you are drawn deeper and paint this scene from Memoirs of a Shy When she is there cluded a prose-poem by Patchen. A LETTER TO into the Patchen universe. Pornographer: GOD. Written in 1943, it mixes together re­ And what a universe it is! From fantastically 1 am come to her v ports from reality of a war torn world: sardonic satire to poignant scenes of sorrow, from After we had gone a short way we came Like a boy finding c surrealistic hallucination to flat statements of to a beautiful place where the trees had And there is nothing God, your noble little sons are mad. belief. The plots and paths cross, twist, exist stood aside to make a field. A gentle hill Anywhere They breathe murder. on several levels at once, and just when you rose to our left, a pretty little river to Their eyes steam. are almost hopelessly lost in a frantic disorder, our right. Here a soft wind brought the and the flat, angry final the walls fall away and you read: scent of curious flowers. And the stars his play, Don't Look No The dimout of death. were clearer, the moon less cruel. The This day is his. stars looked like tiny pieces of paper ... Like now when Now is his hurry. "LP^G every burning on the table of the sky. The moon when some pretty a\ More than dying, nothing is done. L|VE M'A looked like a friendly butcher leaning over But as toads drinking snot. N his counter of clouds. We all better try f We laid the little green deer in the to make the scene r< Cloud over me this cry, this togethering fragrant grass. of a last darkness— But this is a book that can't really be quoted— "How are we going to find the road, Or before very Ion I think your noble little sons are you have to read it yourself. Fragments can't Albert?" there won't be any thieves and cutthroats. begin to catch the awe and mystery of the worlds I was trying to think of something else. .. .for anyb he creates and makes us aware of. I thought as hard as I could. and realities from the Patchen universe: After finishing Sleepers Awake I was completely "Perhaps we can find some of the things In book after book, poe converted — I went out and got as many of his we want here, Priscilla," I said. coming through: (How do you like this?) books as I could afford. The style setting First "Like a nice juicy steak maybe," she The cave was lined with blue fur. A Will and Testament. The haunting They Keep said, laughing. PEACE OR princess sat near the entrance, and in Riding Down All the Time. The Selected Poems, "What would you like with it?" her hand she held a chalice made of and h i s other major prose work, the amazingly "Isn't that a wee bit cruel, Albert?" MERCY TRUTH FREEDOrv gold. She drank of the wine and softly funny and tender Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. "No, I've been thinking. What would PEACE L died. In all of these books, both poem and prose, you —" Far away, almost to the end of the one thing is clear: this is a man speaking— "Well..." OR most distant land, her lover paused at often embittered and angered by the existing his task of creating a new being. inhumanities of the world, yet still joyfully (She goes on to describe in detail a feast of a Two things walked through the shadows aware of the hope and beauty that has not been meal, and as she speaks a man appears pushing which like a woolen shawl hung on the fully ground underfoot by the march of our 'civ­ a cart, and serves her the meal she imagined.) shoulders of the air. Their faces were ilizations.' streaked with yellow chalk and a single "But how! Where!" she said in a sort L M™ horn grew out of their foreheads. It was of choked way. night when they reached the cave. "I advise eating it while it's still hot, They did not touch her. They moved madam," the man said. to a comer away from the world, and, Patchen has been calh lowering their beautiful, sad heads, "I didn't realize I was so hungry myself," doomed youth of the thii wept. 1 said, forking a very plump veal chop is much more than that, Mixing disgust, beauty, anger and visions it onto my plate. It didn't have so much as desperate hope of all hui rises to an insistent, affirmative climax: a fleck of fat on it. through the belief and | "I'll believe anything now," Priscilla man. He towers as a gia God, we shall accept the terms of your said, between mouthfuIs of steak. "dis-affiliates" and their world. "And why wouldn't it be easier to be­ reality. He is involved, That we may not kill. lieve than to doubt?" I said, biting into quotes him on the general That we may not hate. my piece of whole wheat bread which was always because we love That the things of labor belong to all men. which was covered with buck wheat honey. it takes a great deal o That the things of spirit live in all men. The little deer was quietly cropping ten­ one way or the other wha That the things of God are on earth for der shoots on the river bank. He'd had I still do. The situatior the use of all men. a nice swim and his coat shewn beautifully hopeless. For the while in the moonlight. can remember the Great None shall kill when all are completed. "Well...!" Priscilla said, settling her Yet, he still believe None shall hate when all are at love. third cup of coffee back into its saucer. his works are the proof i Ancf this was an opening for me — a hoping. "I'd be willing to invest in a few more But if his books are d< To be totally aware of the insanity of the world, shares of this little old world right at this stones for our times, then yet to hope...I had to see more. Of course minute." have had its epitaph forg< none of the bigger bookstores had ever heard of "It's a wonderful world," I said. "Only deeply. And did his be The Journal of Albion Moonlight. sometimes people forget that almost every­ "Kenneth who?? How d'ya spell it?" thing has a side they can't see unless they-" II So it wasn't until six months later, when one "Unlessthey what, Albert?" darkening afternoon in a small dusty shop the "Unless they believe it's there." And what of the man? man nodded, walked to a shelf and came back 13, 1911 in Niles, Ohi< with a faded second or third hand copy, that I a mill worker. At an earl finally got it. I took it home and flipped It is hard to believe that the man who writes in the mills himself. He through it. The typography ran wild huge cap­ in Albion Moonlight: Yet, Patchen is that man; the'man who sees perimental college at the ital letters sprawled through conventional pages, the horror of a world of mass executions and Besides distinguishing I statements stared from the margins, stories heaped Carol was dying. metropolis melting bombs, yet can still affirm was on the track and foot on narratives, weaving together for a while,only Blood dripped down her face. the dignity of man and create islands of hope several years of rambl to separate again and run off in small type down Her legs had been hacked off at the* out of all that is beautiful in the often unseen working at whatever < the edge of the page — it was a riot of swarm­ thighs. side of the heart of man. He believes that it's he married Miriam Oikei ing impressions. I taped them up as well as I could but there. person, to whom all of I That night I started to read it. I read until the bandages would get washed out of my Who can deny the mounting, yea-saying be­ and who inspired his my eyes could barely focus. Even as I slept hands and her-screaming made the snot lief, in the beautifully designed An Astonished moving Love Poems. In 1 the haunting, disturbing images ran through my stand in my throat. I got down on my Eye Looks Out of the Air (the first edition of to appear in such pubii mind. The next day I shook my head clear and knees and tried to plug up the horrible which, by the way, was printed after hours tn Rev iew of Literature. began again. 1 waded, crawled and soared wounds with my fists...a whole batch of a CO. camp during WW II: Guggenheim fellowship f Before the Brave. It was not renewed. (Par- clutched to their rragiie breasts? Patchen ir­ to belatedly turn admiring glances at the works pies it is a pretty enthetically, it's interesting to note that Henry ritates and annoys critics — he doesn't fit into left behind as 'landmarks of genius'. The paint­ Miller applied for a Guggenheim prior to making any of their handy classifications. I have read ings of Jackson Pollack were "discovered" and his "Air-Conditioned Nightmare" trip. Along reviews of his work that would be laughable for increased greatly in market value only after his r. Death with his rejection notice he received a list of their sheer idiocy in the hair splitting prattle death — does this have to happen to Patchen too*? 't have no look-in here. awards that were made, which he promptly about "form," "meter," and "content relation­ Does he have to be dead before the "big boys" printed in the addenda to that book. Running ships"—if it weren't for the fact that much more wake up to his importance? is it necessary for s rest of you feel, down the list of grants made to further studies is at stake than his poems—it's our lives they're him to starve to death from any one of the many I the time in obscure scientific and botanical fields, it playing with, Jack. Because that's what Patchen kinds of hunger before he's generally considered strikes you that even frhen (1941), the committees is about — our lives. "worthwhile reading"? e didn't have to die. were much more in favor of technology than art Reviews such as those, and the "conspiracy of Patchen IS important—the critics may not know or humanity. It.would be ludicrous—if it wasn't silence of the whole literary America" (as Ken­ it yet, but the people who read him do. A xastard Mr. Death so tragic.) neth Rexroth put it) are all the more maddening bookseller was quoted as saying "I sell Patchen *t have no hand in this In all the intervening years, Patchen has never when you know that during this time that the books not because of the critics, but in spite game received a single one of the "awards annually majority of his published works were written, of the critics." Over the years, Patchen has publicized and heralded as available to deserving Patchen was a semi-invalid, in constant pain become a "best-selling" poet, and has probably mn beautiful for any­ and needy artists!" Why? He is dangerous. from various back injuries, and living in utter the largest following and readership of any living body to die. poverty. Yet, despite the lack of financial or author. (Charlie Parker, the jazz great, used critical assistance he was still able to go on to s i t friends down on the floor and read them turning out book after book praising and exalting passages from Albion Moonlight.), by people who the beautiful, and condemning all that is evil may not know an iambic pentameter from an are not to kill him. with undiminished fury. The strength of this man isoceles traingle, nor give a damn about the is awe-inspiring. difference — but they know the truth when they i the face of doom, of see it. They are of, and in the world — and In time though, there were those that took Patchen doesn't need to be explained or inter­ notice and cared: in the June 19, 1951 issue preted to them. His hope and faith is all the angels of LOOK magazine a picture appeared of seven jch poets (W.H.Auden, E.E.Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, William Carlos and sweet — falsity Williams, and Edith and Robert Sitwell) "meeting to honor and aid Kenneth Patchen." Their well- ®r^($bvB<%t&$> ace of veils and roses publicized generosity was for the purpose of raising a necessary $10,000 for corrective surgery, through readings, etc. wonder In Decmeber, 1960 an appeal letter was sent AASQ. i star in a haymow out by William Packard, "To anyone who has ever M I cruel or mad or evil responded to Kenneth Patchen—to his poems, to his prose works, to his drawings, to his poetry and poetry/jazz readings, to his recordings, or ity of this speech from to his meaning as a man." The letter explains: w: "...for 19 years (from 1937 through 1956) Patchen endured almost total disability from a painful it's dark, spinal condition for which a first surgery brought vful hands are covering no relief. In 1956, he underwent a second sur­ all the light switches gery (a spinal fusion) which did not bring mo­ >retty hard bility; for the first time he was able to tour in jgether as Human Beings public (with his poetry/jazz readings in Calif­ ornia, New York and Canada) and was invited to the Brussels World Fair. However, he was scene left tragically prevented from accepting this honor. ody to make. Instead, on June 13, 1959, Patchen underwent He won't bend. He has never applied for mem­ throat surgery; and it was during this procedure, m after poem, it keeps bership in any of the established literary move­ while under total anesthesia, that he suffered ments. He's talking about life. He names the another injury to his spine and is once again enemies of man. And his outspokeness in the rendered helpless and painfully bedridden." PERISH preface to An Astonished Eye probably scared The letter goes on to explain that another some people oTfJ major operation was scheduled for January 1961 — 1 PEACE PEACE PEACE and that no money was available, nor was there OVE KINDNESS TRUST These poems cover the ten years of my any guarantee that he would be saved. Readings, writing life. There shouldn't be any point concerts and other events were suggested as fund move valid to them precisely because it's not of here in trying to add to what the poems raising means, as well as direct contributions. the head-in-sand variety; he is fully aware of say; but perhaps a few flat statements might the dark and evil, yet can still sing of the not be wasted (people sometimes protest good. He believes because he has to, or sur­ d that 'modern poetry' is too obscure) so, in render to complete helplessness and despair. oo plain English: I am opposed to all war. And his belief is catching.— more than once are e I don't believe human beings should kill I've seen people turn to his books in utter des­ each other. I am opposed to all violence— pair, only to come away smili ng. To many, d for whatever reason. I believe that wars Patchen is much much more than an author — will only end when men refuse to murder he is a light burning in a darkness that grows one another — for whatever reason. heavier every minute. As long as men such as id the "laureate of the I believe these things as a man and a him live there is hope for the human race. •d world war," but he revolutionist. For I believe wars will only His experiments in form and style have already He is a symbol of the end when the present murderous forms of begun to show their influence in works published, nans for a better world society are allowed to die — and all men and in works yet to be published — both prose Dractice of humanity to are at last permitted to live together as and poetry. The French translation of Moonlight nt over the whimpering brothers. was widely read and several authors have adapted systematic avoidance of several of his concepts to their own works. (Guess he cares, Henry Miller And 'who wants to get involved with somebody who gets the credit for the invention?) In Am­ world condition: "It's who takes everything so seriously9' erica, A Singular Man by J. P. Donlevy has that we are rebellious; Albion Moonlight was first printed as a limited strong echoes of Patchen's innovations in style— F love to give a damn edition at Patchen's own expense, then bter re­ and if the influence wasn't direct, at least Pat­ r happens from now on; printed by Padell of New York. If it received chen paved the way. i for human beings is more than a passing mention in publications us­ And even more important is the fact that that's left though, we ually pertaining to such matters as reviews and Patchen's influence is beginning to show in and the gods." criticism at the time, the notices have been well people's thoughts. As Alex Comfort puts it, s that it's there — and buried-— because I haven't been able to find any.- writing in a preface to a 1946 English edition of of this faith. The same goes for Sleepers Awake. Patchen poems: ;stined to be the tomb- His books have brought him very little financial at least this world will reward, and, when noticed by critics at all, have "If the spirit of Patchen comes to reach id by one who loved it occassioned a great deal of hostility. The dust the new conscript generation, if his poetry ist to save it. jacket of the second edition of his Cloth of the and attitude to poetry gives the next gen­ Tempest contained nothing but quotes from un­ eration a voice, there will be a sound in favorable reviews; "finally, however, I feel that the street that will not be rain." the poems in this collection do not 'satisfy:' and He was born December 1 trace this dis-satisfaction to the poet's lack of And it has begun to happen—in a book of his >, where his father was a body of sharp and empirically genuine ideas— Some money was raised, the operation was poems from the library 1 found this scrawled in y age he went to work of perhaps a political and psychological nature." performed — but the circumstances remain prac­ pencil: "There IS hope for man! Long Live spent a year in an ex- And, "Patchen is not a serious poet. And his tically the same today. Patchen!" University of Wisconsin, fulsome self-indulgence, combined with the con­ Recently, New Directions reprinted Albion Kenneth Patchen is a genius—and if you can limself academically he tinual intrusion of a personality that insists on Moonlight and other titles as paperbacks, though ignore his work and meaning, it's not him that ball teams. Then came talking, singing, weeping, fighting, and cooing many are still out of print. Several recordings loses so much. ing around the country, to itself, is very trying..." "By these standards, of him reading from his works have been issued, :ame in hand. In 1934 Patchen is not a poet at all." and more are still to be released. (But only -nus, a really wonderful And that's exactly it — by these standards. God and Folkways Records knows when.) So tis books are dedicated, How can you measure a giant whose subject there is a ripple of recognition, but nowhere man, i t's lyric and tremendously matter is nothing less than life itself by the near what is deserved. At present, over half of 935-36 his poems began yardsticks designed to evaluate the output of his titles are unavailable. YOU cations as The Saturday neutered adjective/infinitive splitting midgets, It seems strange to me that this country has to In 1936 he received a whose spheres of interests are very little wider deny, and through indifference all but destroy Reprinted from AVATAR Dr his first book of verse, than the abstracted "freshly plucked, dewy daisy" its greatest creative spirits while they live, only Page 12 May 24 - June 6, 1968 KALEIDOSCOPE

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by Dennis Gall up in the Kaleidoscope office. the Kaleidoscope office, 1301 It w i 11 be a 24 hour number E. Bracjy at noon to march to Two narcs, one publisher of where people can call to get downtown and to the Safety dirty pictures, two clergymen, information about crash pads, Building. He informed the and over forty assorted East legal advice, medical care, group that there was a chance Siders showed up Thursday night, jobs, dope, food ,etc. Vol­ that they would be busted, but the 16th for the Hip Town Hall unteers are needed to promise if a mass of people showed up, meeting at the First Baptist certain hours that they will be the cops wouldn't hassle them, Church. able to man the phone. Con­ and if they did, Kaleidoscope's The narcs were interested in tact Doug at 461-0976. attorneys would be at their aid. what sort of a response the East The real business of the night SOLIDARITY FOREVER. Side would have to John Kois' was the Kaleidoscope bust. Some people urged caution, arrest for publishing "porno" in John Kois explained the prob­ but others pointed out that if Issue #14 of Kaleidoscope. So lem facing the paper. Because a person isn't willing to take were the Kaleidoscope people. of the fact that the 'dirty' is­ a chance on being busted for Bob Watt (facing camera) is confronted by two Marquette University Regular business was con­ sue had to be pulled off the a cause he doesn't belong in officials while selling Kaleidoscope in the Union during the recent cluded quickly. Plans for the stands to protect our outlets, the community and should go demonstrations held there. Be-ln and Sweep-In were dis­ about $500 in sales was lost. back to his mother. The gen­ cussed. Some rather optimistic John said the paper will need eral feeling about the Bust was person commented that after the at least $300 just to pay the one of disbelief and disgust. Sweep-In "they'll love us." printer for the next issue. Be­ Disgust for OBSCENE COPS. BROOM-POWER - MAY 26th sides that, there will be a legal A collection was taken up CHRIST! From Page 5 Brady Street and Lake Park. fee of $100 per week. and $34 was raised for Kalei­ Things are rolling right along I n an emotional plea, John doscope. GOD BLESS. for the Art Fair, and the report told the people at the meeting Tentative plans for a Hip (The charge was burglary—and his honor set $25,000) by Doug Oitzinger of East Side that "It's your paper, and if church, possibly on Sunday CHRIST: I'm setting the bail I think is necessary to protect the Services showed that there was you don't help— it'll die." afternoons, were announced by public. about $50 in the coffer. Doug John also said that a mass Sell- Doug Oitzinger, Space will FRINZIs Let me appeal to your sense of justice. Twenty-five also announced that an infor­ In was planned for Saturday, probably be available at the thousand is excessive in armed robbery." mation phone will soon be set People were asked to meet at First Baptist Church. CHRIS: You know I do not normally do this. The meeting ended, the narcs FRINZI: But he's out on $8,000 already. left—missing out on the coffee CHRIS: I'll stand on this record. I'm willing for you to take this to the Supreme Court." From P. 9 served afterwards. The next FRINZI: But your honor. PROVINCIAL ANARCHY meeting will be announced in the next issue of Kaleidoscope CHRIS: Why do you keep giving a speech? Take it to the WE HOPE! Supreme Court. And once again, friends, you have heard the words that save. My best student at Wayne in Detroit ten years ago, reading and ORUG MENACE Tune in again next issue when we will bring you more of SUPER writing beat fiction then, talking Marx then, Mao now; a world- TO TEEN-AGERS JUDGE — able to set bail at fantastic heights — more deadly than activist back from Europe, organizing opposition to Greek fascists, a speeding bullet — Christ Seraphim, who, desguised as a mild writing poems, novels, essays against much of the world's evil (but mannered judge, fights the never ending battle against truth, jus­ not Mao's). His book on Indians soon to appear in Italian. tice, and the American way. Good books read recently: Bly's LIGHT AROUND THE BODY, Galway Kinnell's BODY RAGS, three of Mircea Eliade's phen- omenological studies of ritual, myth and magic, the riot commissions' report (really a non-book, but indispensible). But mail flows around and over the books. Kind rejection slips from THE NEW YORKER, a letter from EXPERIMENT that a chil­ dren's play I wrote years ago is at last being published as the editor recovers from a serious illness, a letter from Doug Blazek accepting some poems for SEARED EYE, crazy rerouting of manu­ scripts, some editors sick and crazy and just plain unscrupulous. A few kind and intelligent. Money Appeals Lots of appeals for money — from editors, from organizers, from con-men. Some for worthy causes—SCLC, CORE, SNCC, RESIST, and dozens of less well known organizations. Here's one that SCORPIO - OCTOEBER 24 - NOVEMBER 22: could be great, or could be a shuck, who knows? Here's a quote Give careful thought to problems of yours in regard to others. from a letter from Vocations for Social Change: Don't allow unrealistic and self-decieving hang-ups to enlarge "Each month we'll put out a newsletter, listing job opportunities these problems. They are not as deep as you might think. in social change work, job precedents (examples of individuals Keep your head in its proper place. Saturn foresees travel on who have created their own jobs and ways of supporting themselves) the 25th day of May, it is a complete waste of time. and new, unimplemented job ideas. We should make it clear that we're dealing with social change work, not social service. Ser­ SAGITTARIUS - NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 21: vice work attempts to fill immediate needs, without attacking the Margaret Mead grows her own, so should you. Jupitor points roots of the problem. Change work seeks to change the institutions, to the possibility to get high with a little help from a friend. structures, and systems which bring about the problem." You will detect unconventional behavior on the part of most Who can tell whether George, Gigi, and Claudia, who sign the people on the 2nd of June, let this pass, it is of no great le tter with "Love and Peace," deserve a check? They have a importance. great idea, and would no doubt like to hear about East Side Ser­ vices. But the trouble with proposals of this sort is that they are CAPRICORN - DECEMBER 22 - JANUARY 20: too abstract and impersonal. Instead of frankly and factually Your presence in Paris is of the utmost urgency. Only you telling the story of their lives they present their plans in the un­ Capri corns can alleviate the present hostilities there. Mao is believable style of corporate administrators. The American left is really not a Capricorn. Dirty Commies are in. in danger of losing its thrust if it adopts the style of the ruling class, as taught in social science departments of most American AQUARIUS - JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 19* universities. The underground press, on the other hand, is vig­ Aquarians are not noted for any great lightness of spirit. De­ orous, growing, and responsive to revolutionary crises because its cisions have and do clog your mind. Your star dictates action. style is personal, poetic, sensuous, passionate. Sure, it is prone Lie down in a meadow among the "dandy-loins" and seek that to hysteria, but no more so than the establishment press. It is what you are and need. Mars demands of you to be absolutely sometimes commercial in intent, but certainly not as much as the positive and sure, for the sands of time will see the world to establishment press. The underground press is sometimes wildly in­ die. accurate, but at other times presents carefully documented and well reasoned exposes of this rotten society. And its most important PISCES - FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20: service is in making possible more person-to-person communication Piscians including Aleksei Kosygin, what has happened to your between people like George, Gigi and Claudia. taste? Toss aside all your old and present mates, Saturns po­ sition to the sun foresees beautiful entanglements with Scorpios. Pontification apen z>oonSc Beware of flying stars on the 26th of May. Pontificating again. But while I'm at it here are some comments about the last issue of KALEIDOSCOPE: ARIES - MARCH 21 - APRIL 20: Ginsberg's piece on the Maharishi and Kois' expose1 of the Yip- Caution is urged against unsound advice in regard to nudity. pees introduced a new serious note of reasonable criticism of some A loin cloth is definitely appropriate attire at wed-ins. You of the soft-headed phenomena of the underground. Now that BJR6S' members of the lo^e army, harness your weapons. The word is hippie is dead we should practice a kind of cultural birth control feel free, not free feel. "Never trust a naked bus driver." so his successor won't be a Mongolian idiot. (No racial slur in­ tended.) Youth revolt can bring the world into a new humanism W6B TAURUS - APRIL 21 - MAY 21: if we avoid stupid mysticism and stupid activism, both of which Your ruling planet for the next two weeks is Pluto. Unfortun­ play into the hands of the ruling powers. Meditate and act wisely. ately a very destructive angle Is foreseen. On June 2nd and 3rd chances for getting into hot water are likely. While you Well, that's enough THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMT^T MORGftR. 1341 N. Franklin In the next issue: selections from a secret journal. are there, take your seasonal bath. Make love for profit. • KALEIDOSCOPE May 24 - June 6, 1968 Page 13 The Liberty House

Fugs NEW YORK (LNS) - Crafts produced by former plan­ tation workers tn the South are now being sold through cooperative outlets in the North. For those trying to Crucify support their families on as little as $15 weekly, the possibility of a steady weekly income of $15, $20 or SAN FRANCISCO (LNS) - The Fugs came to San even $30 means economic salvation and genuine hope Francisco on Good Friday and crucified God in the for a better life. Avalon Ball room 0 For the Black tenant fanner of Mississippi, this new On the other two crosses they nailed up LBJ and opportunity Is being made available through co-ops the "puke-freak MaharishL." Nothing is sacred to the producing toys, clothing and leather goods. The pri­ Fugs. mary, outlet is Liberty House, 353 Bleeker St., New As Mephistophelean Fug-leader Ed Sanders once put York City. Mall order catalogs are also available it, "It's a total assault on the culture." from Liberty House, Box 3468, Jackson, Miss. The Fugs basically consist of poets Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg and drummer Ken Weaver. The rest of the group, which changes from time to time, supplies the hard rock beat underlying the lyrical madness. This time it Included two guitarists and an additional Grass Cookery drummer. The Fugs in person are better than they are on rec­ A three pound chicken serves four persons. This is ords. Sanders, lead singer and microphone-humper, is a good way to prepare a middle-aged chicken. a frenzied high-energy source in black shirt and pants Clean and cut info pieces one chicken. Roll the and red boots 0 His commentary between songs — a pieces in seasoned flour (one cup all purpose flour, surrealistic patter ranging from squirrel sperm to Lesbian 1 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper or 1/2 teaspoon dwarfs — has the frankness, if not the spontaneity, of paprika). Lenny; Bruce. Most of us are vacillating between Melt in skillet or pot 1/4 cup fat (I use butter). heaven and hell. Ed Sanders has made his choice* Add and saute for 2 minutes 1/2 chopped onion and Kupferberg, who has written some surprisingly beau­ 2 teaspoons of grass. Brown the chicken* Heat to tiful Fug songs, joined in Friday on only two songs— the boilina. point 1 cup Chicken Stock and 1/2 cup his own "Nothing," and "Kill for Peace." cream. Weaver, a giant bear in a fur hat, sang his own Pour this over the chicken0 Cover th# p«|t and sim­ "I Couldn't Get High" and helped Sanders scatologize. mer the chicken until It is tender,, Takes about an A German TV crew was filming the Fugs during the hour. performance. The cameramen went wild during "Kill Remove the chicken from the pot. Strain the stock. for Peace," trying to capture it all on film. Two Th|cken if desired with flour. Reheat chicken in gravy were taking movies — one focused on Sander's feet and serve. 1 usually serve this with wild rice or MJB as he cavorted and stomped on a doll — and a third brown rice. (UPS) was snapping stills. The crew also shot a lot of footage of a girl dancing bra-less in a mesh blouse. The fearless crotch-rock specialists also performed Macy's Free such notable Fug Oldies-but-Goldies as "Saran Wrap,"

"Slum Goddess,"and "River of Shit0" A question the Fugs pose is whether or not a man Store can commit total blasphemy and still be lovable. I'm not sure of the answer. Ed Sanders says he loves me, NEW YORK (LNS) — Macy's Department Store, one but he still scares me. (—by Jim Tankard-LNS) of the largest general stores in the worlds will be­ come a Free Store on June 8th„ The YIP (Youth In­ ternational Party) is sponsoring the event,, Perhaps the nation's first pre-publicized loot- in, the Yippies are also asking people to bring to Macy's items they wish to give away. With the Poor Peoples' Campaign Yogurt underway, special attention will be directed to the securing of camp equipment. As a chanting Yippie Underground Press Syndicate Liberation News Service told it the other day: NEW YORK (UPS) — Try this experim enf: Buy a "Loot, twenty-seven cent, eight ounce container of yogurt0 (What? You don't like yogurt? Never mind — to It belongs to you make it more palatable you can use the flavored kind: Keep what you need. strawberry, orange, boysenberry, etc.). Give what you don°t need. Now, on an empty stomach lap up eight ounces of to those that do. yogurt. Feel anything? Notice an insidious desire Loot* to laugh seeping into your brain? # It belongs to you,," Of course you do; FOR THE BACTERIA IN THE YO­ GURT CULTURE PRODUCES A MILD PSYCHEDELIC, (let me assure you that this is not another banana hoax perpetrated by the Berkeley Barb or the Village Voice. Rhetorical Sex Yogurt does contain a psychedelic.) NEW YORK, N.Y, (UPS- The Rat) — The new free­ and healthy sex appetite wants to Wv^i with well-off A friend turned me on to yogurt the other night for dom in advertising has made the underground press' man who will provide time to paint." the first time: colors w e r e enhanced; a feeling of classified sections a marketplace for sexual transactions, As Gloria tells it, she was immediately deluged with well-being (of being connected to the world) swept open to anyone with a few dollars and a bit of fan­ letters, notes neatly folded q,rf2 placed in the mail­ over me; and I suffered from a bad case of laughter* tasy. Some ads offer satisfaction of bizarre needs, such box, two telegrams, and twenty-five visitors knocking, You can enjoy the YOGURT EXPERIENCE quite as one which reads: "Aggressive gentleman with a on her door and wanting to discus the ad„ "Those legally *— for the moment. But I foresee the day large variety of whips wishes to rrjeet passive girls for seeking to make an "arrangement" included many bus­ when police will swoop down on healty-food haunts mutual pleasure." Others hint of suburban boredom, inessmen/ ah attorney or two, and several recent di­ on a regular basis. (Reprinted from EVO) appealing "attractive married couple, he 34 and trim, vorcees. she 31, blonde and well-built, seek other couple in­ The amazing fact is that except for one letter and experienced but willing to explore the delights of three lecherous men who waited at the door, not one group love making." person mentioned sex. People didn't want to screw Killer Cop Freed A reader of the underground press tantalized by Gloria Meyers; they wanted her company. these ads assumes that he somehow missed experiences As the days passed, the

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of us felt for the first fime at the Pentagon what it carry on business as usual without having sold out must be like to live in a police state, an armed gar­ whatever humanity was left in you. Pentagon From Page 6 rison; what it must be like to live every waking and If that had been all that happened at the Pentagon, sleeping moment in fear of an army that is always it would already have been enough. But something stalking you. else happened as well. The rolds broke down, the When you look at a soldier from afar—from two feet masks on both sides fell down. It was an uncomfort­ It May As Well Have Been Real or more—it is hard to tell that he is a man. He looks able situation at first: it is much easier to cast the Revolutionaries we were not when we came, and I and acts just like a machine; like his bayonet and hel­ man on the other side of the bayonet as an enemy, doubt that most of us are really revolutionary now. met, he is cast of hard, cold steel. It's very hard to The Enemy. It makes things much simpler, conspiracies We are far too well-off, far too comfortable, to know remember — you must keep reminding yourself — that more real. At one point late Saturday afternoon, the desperation from which revolution grew up. We he is underneath all that still a man. In seeing that when there were still large numbers of demonstrators still have sanctuaries, we still have college libraries soldier, we have already seen more than ninety-nine outside the Mall and trying to get in, a group of six and private bedrooms in which to hide and heal our percent of white America. of us already inside the Mall linked arms and tried wounds when the shit comes down. Norman Mailer It goes still deeper than that. There is a sense in to break through a particularly weak spot in the sol­ has his party in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, and which none of us wants to feel how evil men can be, dier's cordon. his next novel 0 how perverted and lost his country is. We can know We moved up very slowly, to the right and the left But if we don't have soul, we have lots of imagin­ it intellectually and denounce it (at regular intervals) and finally straight on, to within an arms-length of ation, and a refined sense of the literary and the dra- in speech and in writing. But to comprehend it in the three soldiers guarding the way. One boy began matiCo So with neither the troops nor the ideology to the deepest way is to renounce a large part of your­ making soothing remarks to the soldiers in a gentle, pull off a revolution, we went through the motions — self. It is not so easy to go back to a life of love eminelty reasonable voice, strangely out of place in of making revolution. It may as well have been a and work and occassional pleasure after seeing how in the circumstances. "Take it easy, guys. We're real one (it may have been the beginning of a real the other two-thirds of the world subsists while you only human and so are you. Why don't you take off

one), because it was real for us at the time. Most and I indulgec You can't go back home again and those silly gas masks and talk to us. You're not our enemies; we don't even know you yet." From Page 6 One soldier began to breathe very heavily; his black COP gas mask swelled and deflated like an accordian. His view, his position, his moralityc ..The only real dif­ Now like the rest of the men in his squad he spends eyes, barely visible through the small circles allowed ference between the cop and any other man is their his time in the "coops," places where cops on the for sight, looked red and irritated, almost watery. He rate of adjustment to the realities of life." Joe Flah­ beat go to smoke, escape the weather, or escape the staggered forward slowly and shouted almost inaudibly erty, in his review of this book in The Village Voice responsibilities of their jobs. At the end of the book, through the mask: "Get away, you bastards, don't get (April 25) interprets this to mean that perhaps cops do after trying for a promotion and being brushed off be­ near me; I'm warning you, stay where you are." not create the evil they live in but just mirror the cause he has no "rabbi," he accepts a small bribe from inner workings of our system where getting ahead at a bookmaker — there is no law broken, the man just A Human Encounter all costs is the only morality. What you see in the shoves the money in Paul's pocket and walks away. We inched forward, or gave the impression of it. system Radano's here works in is every large institution But Paul keeps the money and as he watches an old He shouted again, almost pleading this time, and be­ and the initiation of every young man of good instincts derelict dressed as Santa Claus promising some children gan flailing wildly with his blunt, stubby tear-gas into that system. everything they wish, he thinks bitterly that it is all rifle. His helmet fell off as a result of his own ges­ The cop who walks the beat is Paul, a rookie fresh promises. ticulating, and he suddenly looked very naked in his out of the Police Academy. He takes his job seriously The author is a 51 year old retired New York City crewcut. He was removed from duty immediately and and desires to get ahead by doing a competent job. patrolman. He has written several plays, one produced histled off somewhere in the distance. It was just Like Everyman, however, from the very first he hears off-broadway. In this book he tries for, and achieves, about then that we began to feel the sting of tear gas the voices of the tempters—citizens offering bribes of the flat objective reportage that stands at the borders in our lungs and throats. By the standards of the Pen­ money, liquor, sex; other cops telling him how to get of fiction and non-fiction. But embedded in the book tagon, it had been a human encounter. along0 The Chaplain in the first chapter sounds the are passages that achieve singular beauty. Chapter 5, A human encounter, not a political one; Mailer note of the morality play which echoes through the "A Midnight Tour" could be taken out and published makes that clear. H e, no more than the rest of us, rest of the book: as a short story. Paul is dragged into a whore's room had a reason to be at the Pentagon — except that in Then there's temptation I No man outside the because she claims her client won't pay her the five the vacuum of motives, it seemed not simply right but Department will ever have to face what you'll bucks agreed upon. The client says she has hidden imperative that we do so. "One did not march on the have to face each and every day„ Temptation is the money in her sex organs and proceeds to search Pentagon and look to get arrested as a link in a master probably the most severe test you will ever en­ for it: scheme to take over the bastions of the Republic, step counter,, The woman was as impassive as a cow being by step, no that sort of sound-as-brickwork logic was But the system inside is as corrupt as the system milked. As she looked down at the back of his left to the FBI. outside and Paul's education becomes an education into head her face became contemptuous. Suddenly "Rather one marched on the Pentagon...because... the nature of this corruption. He learns the indifference she began to giggle. "Look," she said to Paul, because...and here the reasons became so many and which continual ^exposure to human suffering and de­ "He's enjoying himself." so curious and so vague, so politican and so primitive, gradation can develop; he is cheated by bums and by The same night Paul meets John, one of the older that there was no need, or perhaps no possibility to his superiors. He learns that the only way to get cops, who is looking for a whore named Miriam. Later talk about it yet..." Mailer's rebellion is not po­ ahead is to have connections. Not to know anyone, from another cop, Paul hears how John has fallen in litical in any conventional sense; it is rather a revolt not to have a "rabbi" higher up means jobs with no love with her and now no longer lets her hustle cops. against a vision of himself as a common, less-than- chance of ease or promotion. Paul gets cheated out The other cop is sore so he decides to remove the human being, and against a society which denies at of a metal for heroism by his Sergeant; he is humiliated temptation: once both the uniqueness of men and the community in traffic court for ticketing a man with influence* So I got in touch with these friends of mine from among them. Finally he too says "To Hell with the people,..To the Immigration Authority. I told them the whole "Look to the feel of the phenomenon," Mailer writes; Hell with the job!" story. They pulled a few wires, had her classified "if it feels bad, it is bad.«." The truth in a situation as an undesirable alien — she was a whore — and or event is utterly intuitive: it derives from "the ex­ had her deported to Cuba. istential promise of truth, it feels true," It is that DRAFT LAW From Page 6 In chapters entitled "Locker Room Talk" Radano con­ feel that Mailer has and that so many more 'political' structs a Dos Passos-like record of every male society: writers have lost. Just as those within the Establish­ of an appeal consumes a great deal of time for the "What a hook he must have had I Son-of-a-b?tch ment, we on the Left have ways of keeping ourselves

draft system,, Properly appealed, CG O. requests have walks around crying that he doesn't know anyone from discovering who we are — and one of them is been known to take two years and while appeals are and next thing he's in plain clothes." political rhetoric. Ideologies, as Jerry Rubin says, pending one is not draftable. The more people that "I knew a cop had priest write a letter for him. are a brain disease. appeal adverse draft decisions, the more the draft- Did that open doors I" The Steps of the Pentagon is a partial view of that system becomes clogged up, slowing down your induc­ The favorite jokes are sexual and racial, preferably weekend's events, from the perspective of a middle- tion, and everyone elses', too. combined: aged novelist who represents no movement and carries Delaying induction is one of the main weapons of "Know who put those forty bullets in Mussolini? no ideological banners. Mailer is not a New Leftist;

the potential draftee. This is especially true if the ..0Forty thousand Italian sharpshooters." but he may well be one of our immediate ancestors. political attitude towards the war is changing. "Know what they call a Jewish fag? A He-Blew." His crazy love-hate relationship with himself and with If every draft objector insisted only on a jury trial, "Know what they call an Irish fag? A Gay-Lick." America is an ambivalence which his generation has two percent of the young men called to service could passed down to ours. Mailer's political rebellion is force the federal court system to grind to a halt„ the end product of the combined diseases in himself The draft law is only one instrument by which the For the most part these men are probably ordinary and his society. I have the feeling he would have whole American population is covertly or openly reg­ kids, altar boys and high school athletes, who still very much wished to be well-adjusted and content with imented to the aims of the New Industrial State. But go to church, married nice girls, and raise nice kids. the pleasures of the Fat Society some years ago, be­ is probably the most effective single instrument the And thought when they started that a civil service job fore he got accustomed to the role of the rebel. Po- government possesses for this purpose. The major force was as good a job as they could get — pensions, sick litcal rebels — true political rebels, not ideologues- propagating war on our planet today is the military- pay and the rest. What happens after is shown in a beg i n their rebellion with the gut feeling that their industrial complex of the United States. Anyone who scene between Paul and a plainclothes cop. The plain lives are intolerable; the intellectual recognition comes can contribute to depriving that machine of the power clothesman is the most vicious cop„ In any riot he is very much later. Some on the left today have for­ to wage aggressive war is performing a service to indistinguishable from the mob and may encourage the gotten the roots of their struggle in their pursuit of mankind. This book attempts to show the many points bystander to participate by his seeming civilian ap­ ever more stophisticated and "correct" analyses. Real which make the draft system vulnerable and encourages pearance. He is generally involved in the entrappment politics — one man relating to another — begins with the opponents of the war to take advantage of every which captures whores, dope peddlers, homosexuals* feeling. It took Norman Mailer and two days at the possible pointo Con't. on P. 19 Pentagon to remind us of that. BOOKS & RECORDS About our stock We When? We're around any day from also sell many used paper­ 10:00 A.M. To 10:00 P.M.—Except backs and used records and Saturday, when we like to split at will buy some of the same. scbKoet>eirs 5:30, and the Sabbath, when we just sort of dawdle around from 2 to 5. Stop by when you get the chance. 636 9ti WUccn&iti You can browse, relax, chat, and 272-0583 have a coffee on us. Page 16 May 24 - June 6, 1968 KALEIDOSCOPE

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The Underground Lift Society will association of publications in participate i n the first exper­ the "alternative press" and exists numbness to life and killing to facilitate communication be­ that they acquire eventually ience but anyone who wishes tween such papers and the pub- wears off. They refuse orders, to present his experience is lic at large. Members of UPS sick of death, and the murder­ welcome to attend. The service are free to use each other's ing they have done, they refuse will be about an hour in length material. A current list of all VIET NAM UPS papers and advertising rate to go to w a r, to k i 11, even and we are open to suggestions. cards for individual papers are HAPPENING with the certainty of a full available by sending a stamped, Dear Editor: general court martial. self-addressed envelope to UPS, Since beginnings are the Box26, Greenwich Village Post The good people here, and Office, New York 10014. A hardest parts of letters to cope there are good people here, do sample packet of about a dozen with, I will start this one in what they want. They try to UPS papers is available from the middle (which is where I help the Vietnamese people the same address for $4 and a am anyway, as you can see by Library Subscription to all UPS when possible, they cannot ac­ papers (about 50) costs $50 for the location I am writing this tively sabotage the war effort the remainder of 1968. from) . EAST SIDE herec Here you are close to In your Letters section in the the guys out humping the rice East Side Services, newly April 26 issue you had a letter paddieso An open act of sab­ formed hip co-op, is planning from Mike Rice telling you what otage would certainly mean the an art exhibit for early Spring. he saw out on the coast. The death of a Gl out in the field. The exhibit, free to all, will Bay area, I think. When I Activities here are confined, be held in Frenchy's parking MIBIA read it I was struck with the for, not only cowardice (moraI- lot, on North Avenue. Artists thought of writing you so that type), expediency, an ugly wishing to exhibit should con­ 18€» you can see what I see and word, to discussing, reading, tact Kaleidoscope, or call Den­ feel here. And what you should writing, pledges of resistance- nis Gall at 964-3691. know about some of the things once the return to the world is happening here. made,and quite a bit of smoking. Admitedly, it is not as hip 731 E. Lyon Whatever you have heard about SERVICES here as it is in San Francisco, grass in Vietnam, about how Milwaukee, Wis. 53202 or even as hip as it is on Far- plentiful, how cheap, and how 414 273-5547 well Ave. There are several strong it is—believe it. 75% conditions that exist here that of the GIs do smoke grass. And are not conductive to the growth is it ever good stuff! I have of an underground society or smoked fortwo and a half years, strain of thought. There are and never have I smoked any­ SUBSCRIBERS - FREE ADS no Hugh O'Gonnell's and Christ thing this strong. Seraphim's, all we have are The UPS and LNS papers are ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS: KALEIDOSCOPE NOW OFFERS ITS Westmoreland and Abrahms. passed around freely. Guys SUBSCRIBERS FREE CLASSIFIED ADS! Along with all the junior West- from the coast supply the Or­ Want to have some fun? Have something you'd like to sell or morelands, the West Pointers, acle, guys from Boston the a message that you feel all Kaleidoscope readers would benefit the OCS robots, and a large Avatar, I the Kaleidoscope, from? Kaleidoscope loves you, subscriber, because you have dem­ contingent of 40 year old veg­ etc., etc. Books that are not onstrated your faith in us and made it possible for us to keep some etables that have spent half found in tKe PX are sent here verifiable count of papers sold. For this reason, Kaleidoscope their life in the service of their by friends,read,and passed on. wishes to thank you by offering you free ads in our unciassifieds. country, right or wrong. Grass is given out freely, if We must make a limit of six lines, but we promise that your ad Of course there is the usual only one person has a bag he will appear in the next issue after its receipt. Please use the army assortment of morons, real will share it with fifty who First Nude-In special SUBSCRIBERS FORM below for your FREE AD. and self-made, mental do- have none. There Is no ques­ nothings, and a heavy tradition tion of owing or paying back. Scheduled I I 1 I I I 1 I 1 I I i I I I 1 1 I I I 1 I 1 1 1 of military thought and philos­ Nineteen year old kids are ophy that controls all overt being turned on. These are The Milwaukee Sexual Free­ 1 111 M I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I 1 1 1 I I I I actions, suppresses all thinking, kids that would otherwise never dom League will hold their first I I I ) I I I I I I I I I ,1 1 I I I I I I I I I I for the enlisted man that reads consider trying it. And they Nude-ln on Sunday, June 2, in I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I is potentially dangerous. There are digging it. You will be Lake Park. Kristel Higrass, is the controlled news service surprised in a few years when League secretary, announced I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 I I I 1 I I 1 I of the army—this consists mainly the kids return and start doing the event, and added, "this will be a first for Milwaukee. I 'I' ' * ' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I M 1 of the armed forces broadcasting their thing back in the world. network—every Saturday after­ They are the young, and they We expect problems, but we NAME noon they take you right up in­ are learning, and growing. think the city will grow to KALEIDOSCOPE ADDRESS_ accept the idea of public P.O. Box 5457 side the helicopter to hear the Do not misunderstand me, CITY _MiIwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 sounds of battle and talk to the Vietnam is not filled with loving, nudity." men who risk their lives daily, peaceful folk. This is the Miss Higrass also mentioned and the Stars & Stripes which bummer of all eternity, and SFL plans for a nude Wade-In is a cross between the East Side there are guys who have gone at Bradford Beach sometime this Herald and the American Legion mad. Insane with the God-like summer. The exact date would It's All Right, Ma­ Magazine, which is also given power of life and death that not be announced, she ex­ to us. And propaganda — god they hold in their hand,- some plained, to avoid arrest. The that stuff is obscene! guys have left the realm of press, however, will be alerted. lt's Only Yet, even under the burden humanity and entered the world The exact location and time of all this, there is a creeping of robots. They are not to be of the Lake Park Nude-ln is underground -—not really an chastized, they are to be pitied, also being kept secret, again underground, it is sort of half not to be rebuked, they are to to avoid undue heat and un­ buried. It is a natural thing. be helped. wanted crowds, but Kaleido­ In a society that is controlled LOVE, scope will be there — with to the point of being strangled, R. W. camera—to cover (so to speak) where middle-aged men with PLIEKU, VIETNAM this history making event. (Sundays, 9 to Midnight)

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Dear Editor: Since almost everything is long live the Kaleidoscope! Your article which appeared judged to be either gravely or What this world needs most h: in the Milwaukee Journal Green venial Iy sinful; it is up to we "Love, sweet Love." Christ Sheet, May 16th, I thought Hippies to join in spirit of mind came to bring love to all men, - was just splendid. Hippiedom and body in showing society so I too come as a minister of will never die. It shall con­ that out of love, can come the Master, to all the wonder­ tinue just as long as this pur­ more love, and understanding. ful Hippie people who have itan istic-stra ight society we Yes, I too am a Hippie, not found the secret of living. I live in shall continue; if not in dress, for 1 am prevented join you Hippies in not only prevail. It must prevail! from expressing my freedom of spirit, but also in body! Keep The Kaleidoscope is doing desire by this straight society; up the good work. Due to this society a great favor, but believe me I am a Hippie this straight-society, I cannot whether it knows it or not. It in spirit and mind. I say long print my name, but shall keep is helping to free us from the live Love-lns, long live free­ in touch with you. fetters of not only a love-less, dom of dress, long live won­ A PRIEST WUWM-FM but a brainwashed society. derful psychedelic-experience, Milwaukee KALEIDOSCOPE May 24 - June 6, 1968 Page 17

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morality police, but it is out, despite them. From Page 15 8 COP No one is bitter. When we decided to publish an CONTRACEPTIVES •*• •*«• Paul is treated to a drink by Herbie, a plainclothes- underground paper last summer, we accepted the in­ man dressed like a NYU student. He tells Paul his evitability of a bust as part of the price we'd have to day interval that it can fertilize the egg. The obvious specialty is grabbing fags: pay in attempting to establish a free press in Milwau­ conclusion from these three facts is that there really "It's easy0 I hang around a park and put my kee. We've never wanted a bust, but we've never are only 72 hours —merely 3 days — each month when hand in my pants pocket. I pretend I'm jingling avoided it and, as may be evident in this issue, we sex can lead to pregnancy — the two days before the coins." His face became grimmer0 "It attracts don't intend to avoid it in the future. female egg is released and the full day afterward. If them — those who are looking for younger boys— Most underground papers use a bust as an opportunity a woman can avoid sex during this time, then theor­ and soon you got company0 When he makes the to present a long essay detailing their vision, their etically she is in no danger of becoming pregnant. proposition I bag him0" assumed place in the community, their plans and their This means she must limit her sexual activities to those Herbie tells the story of one suspect he was unable defense. We've avoided this; Kaleidoscope is, and days of the month when she is "safe." What makes to make betray himself so he goes with him to his room0 that's alio Since it is the end result of several more this simple idea so difficult to put into practice—and The man returns dressed like a woman and asks to be or less strange minds, no individual could presume to what limits the effectiveness of this method—is that no spankedo Herb ?e complies and himself feels sexual explain it, and no group effort would make any sense certain way has yet been found to determine which pleasure*. Revolted, he arrests the man but the judge to anyone. And at least half of every issue is what days are which. suspends the sentence: was in your head before you even picked up the paper. The advantage of this method, of course, is that it "Some nights when I go home...the truth, I'm So, we've been busted. Nothing for anyone to get is free0 No special materials are needed (of course, ashamed of myself." excited about. We have a lot more to say to Mil­ a calendar will help). There are no possibilities of "Why don't you quit?" waukee, and ain't no one gonna turn us around. side effects from the contraceptive materials when the "You can'to You can'to" rhythm method is used, because none are usedo How­ And he pays for the drinks with a big wad of bills. ever, success depends on how accurately a woman is The cops' experience becomes then an indictment of in predicting her "safe" dayse This method, obviously, society rather than of the individual, a society that restricts the freedom of your sex life. After all, glorifies power, money, advancement at the expense "vibrations" can occur on ANY day. of the individual o And a society which leaves to the police the work of cleaning up its garbage, clearing the streets of homosexuals and prostitutes, facing guns and knives while the crowd backs offc How do you feel when you discover that a burglar has also raped a 14-month-old baby in the apartment he robbed? I know several policemen who have quit in disgust. There are stories of others who have ended it with their own From Page 6 revolverso The final message of Radano's book is that MARCUSE men are corrupted by institutions as Shelley warned us to the social relations of mankind as the paramount a century agoc But who listens to poets anyway? concern of a scientific view of the social existence of mankind and the possibility of moving on beyond the oo SMTWTFSl brutal and slave essence of culture,, PILLS 12 3 4 5 6 jf A a ion 12 a T* 1516 imm,; ;ol Marcuse, in Eros and Civilization, has held up the 212223242526271 282930 need to conduct philosophy and scientific study of From Page 2 FOAMING TABLETS RHYTHM METHOD APPLICATOR BUST society with both concern for economics and a concern absurdity that I was able to spend a good part of the for sexuality. The genius of Marx was to have seen More information about the methods of birth control afternoon laughing but the thought of the possible five the influence of sex on man's thinking and aspirations. discussed here may be obtained either from your doc­ year/$5,000 sentence has since had a sobering effect. To youth and non-bureaucratic adults a bombshell tor or the family planning clinic in your area. .The Almost no one accused of a crime expects to get con­ was dropped into their midst. Long used to sterile and man behind the counter at the drugstore will also prove victed, but.... staggering accounts of trivia and unconnected data helpful. Remember, of course, that it is "obscene" Somehow, this issue of Kaleidoscope is on the streets pawned off as "education" (which only lead deeper to dispense birth control devices to the unmarried. on schedule, but it wasn't easy. We were warned down the path of death, mayhem, and the betrayal of Risking the 90% chance of pregnancy if you employ about the bust two days before it happened, so we ideals), increasing numbers of people have come over no birth control method really isn°t worth it but, as wasted alot of time wondering and worrying, and later to the camp of Marcuse. The openly proclaimed task you have seen here, there are many simple methods a lot of time was spent organizing the Saturday Sell-In of Marcuse is to head off blind surging, which often available that require no more than a 20<£ investment and Protest, and next Friday's Benefit Dance. This sweeps far too many socialists into the same blindness, at the drugstore. issue might have been better, had it not been for the toward self-destruction and mass mayhem. —LNS Go out and vibrate, loves.

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HELP DEFEAT THE CENSOR MORONS Gty* lean* Xtytp doctors stormed in and heated big blunt Jesus it's beautiful!! Before the Brave. It was not renewed. (Par- clutched to their rragile breasts? Patchen ir­ to belatedly rum admiring glances at the works devils of things — and...and then they Great mother of apples it is a pretty enthetically, it's interesting to note that Henry ritates and annoys critics — he doesn't fit into left behind as 'landmarks of genius'. The paint­ plunged them into her...that sizzle... World! Miller applied for a Guggenheim prior to making any of their handy classifications. I have read ings of Jackson Pollack were "discovered" and and the smell — I was vomiting. And his "Air-Conditioned Nightmare^ trip. Along reviews of his work that would be laughable for increased greatly in market value only after his KENNETH PATCHEN she died with her eyes an inch out of her You're a bastard Mr. Death with his rejection notice he received a list of their sheer idiocy in the hair splitting prattle death —does this have to happen to Patchen tod? head. And I wish you didn't have no look-in here. awards that were made, which he promptly about "form," "meter," and "content relation­ Does he have to be dead before the "big boys" printed in the addenda to that book. Running ships"—if it weren't for the fact that much more wake up to his importance? Is it necessary for by David (Tony) Glover through this profound surrealistic narrative of a is the same man who can write in Cloth of the I don't know how the rest of you feel, down the list of grants made to further studies is at stake than his poems—it's our lives they're him to starve to death from any one of the many flight through a shattered and shattering world; Tempest: But I feel drunk all the time in obscure scientific and botanical fields, it playing with, Jack. Because that's what Patchen kinds of hunger before he's generally considered Kenneth Patchen is probably the most impor­ the group of travelers harrassed by snarling dogs, strikes you that even 'then (1941), the committees is about — our lives. "worthwhile reading"? tant creator now living. And I mean creator— war guns, phantoms, and, equally important, O my darling troubles heaven And I wish to hell we didn't have to die. were much more in favor of technology than art Reviews such as those, and the "conspiracy of Patchen IS important—-the critics may not know the labels of "poet," "author" and "artist" are themselves. Through the pages of blood and With her loveliness or humanity. It.would be ludicrous—if it wasn't silence of the whole literary America" (as Ken­ it yet, but the people who read him do. A not inclusive enough to begin to describe his horror, through the confusion and wildly grim O you're a merry bastard Mr. Death so tragic.) neth Rexroth put it) are all the more maddening bookseller was quoted as saying "I sell Patchen output. At last count he had 29 titles (prose, humor came one main message: this is war and She is made of such cloth And I wish you didn't have no hand in this In all the intervening years, Patchen has never when you know that during this time that the books not because of the critics, but in spite poetry and mixtures of the two) to his credit, he the world that war makes. That the angels cry to see her game received a single one of the "awards annually majority of his published works were written, of the critics." Over the years, Patchen has has made almost 800 cover paintings for special Then 1 found a bookshop run by an anarchist publicized and heralded as available to deserving Patchen was a semi-invalid, in constant pain become a "best-selling" poet, and has probably editions of his work, his poem-painting combin­ who carried alot of usually hard to find titles— Little gods dwell where she moves Because it's too damn beautiful for any­ and needy artists!" Why? He is dangerous. from various back injuries, and living in utter the largest following and readership of any living ations run into the hundreds, and his work has through there I was able to get Sleepers Awake— And their hands open golden boxes body to die. poverty. Yet, despite- the lack of financial or author. (Charlie Parker, the jazz great, used appeared in publications ranging all the way from Patchen's second prose masterpiece, now, dam- For me to lie in. critical assistance he was still able to go on to sit friends down on the floor and read them The Saturday Review of Literature and Womans mit, out-of-print. It's an extension of the areas and the quiet truths: turning out book after book praising and exalting passages from Albion Moonlight.), by people who Home Companion to Liberation and The Outsider. and methods explored in Moonlight mixtures of She is built of lilacs and candy doves the beautiful, and condemning all that is evil may not know an iambic pentameter from an Each of his works is a message from another poem, prose and drawing, reality and hallucin­ And the youngest star wakens in her hair This is a man. You are not to kill him. with undiminished fury. The strength of this man isoceles traingle, nor give a damn about the universe — the special Patchen universe. A ation, ugliness and breathtaking beauty. Again is awe-inspiring. difference — but they know the truth when they universe created by sheer guts and with a shining the design and typography are an integral part She calls me with the music of silver bells and the tender beauty, in the face of doom, of see it. They are of, and in the world —and anger and beauty — a universe to make us more of the structure — effects are never used for And at night we step into other worlds his Love Poems: In time though, there were those that took Patchen doesn't need to be explained or inter­ aware of the possibil ities of the limited and the sake of fireworks alone, always they add to Like birds flying through red and yellow air notice and cared: in the June 19, 1951 issue preted to them. His hope and faith is all the battered one that most of us inhabit. and are part of the creative whole. This was Of childhood Do I not deal with angels of LOOK magazine a picture appeared of seven I first became aware of Patchen through a a staggering concept, this total use of even When her lips I touch poets (W.H.Auden, E.E.Cummings, Archibald pamphlet by Henry Miller called PATCHEN— mechanical I imitations to further the artistip 0 she touches me with the tips of wonder MacLeish, Marianne Moore, William Carlos MAN OF ANGER AND LIGHT. (Now out of scheme — the layout and design of these books and the angels cuddle like sleepy kittens So gentle, so warm and sweet — falsity Williams, and Edith and Robert Sitwell) "meeting print, however, most of it was reprinted in an are as much a part of the effect as their con­ At our side Has no sight of her to honor and aid Kenneth Patchen." Their well- ^^nM^^i^ anthology of Miller's essays called STAND STILL tent. In unity, they create an enticing sym­ 0 the wo ltd is a place of veils and roses publicized generosity was for the purpose of LIKE THE HUMINGBIRD.) The pamphlet in­ phonic structure; always you are drawn deeper and paint this scene from Memoirs of a Shy When she is there raising a necessary $10,000 for corrective surgery, cluded a prose-poem by Patchen. A LETTER TO into the Patchen universe. Pornographer: through readings, etc. GOD. Written in 1943, it mixes together re­ And what a universe it is! From fantastically 1 am come to her wonder In Decmeber, 1960 an appeal letter was sent JUSQ. /oJti ports from reality of a war torn world: sardonic satire to poignant scenes of sorrow, from After we had gone a short way we came Like a boy finding a star in a haymow out by William Packard, "To anyone who has ever surrealistic hallucination to flat statements of to a beautiful place where the trees had And there is nothing cruel or mad or evil responded to Kenneth Patchen—to his poems, to God, your noble little sons are mad. belief. The plots and paths cross, twist, exist stood aside to make a field. A gentle hill Anywhere his prose works, to his drawings, to his poetry They breathe murder. on several levels at once, and just when you rose to our left, a pretty little river to and poetry/jazz readings, to his recordings, or Their eyes steam. are almost hopelessly lost in a frantic disorder, our right. Here a soft wind brought the and the flat, angry finality of this speech from to his meaning as a man." The letter explains: the walls fall away and you read: scent of curious flowers. And the stars his play. Don't Look Now: "...for \9 years (from 1937 through 1956) Patchen The dimout of death. were clearer, the moon less cruel. The endured almost total disability from a painful This day is his. stars looked like tiny pieces of paper ...Like now when it's dark, spinal condition for which a first surgery brought Now is his hurry. LPTIG Mi every II burning on the table of the sky. The moon when some pretty awful hands are covering no relief. In 1956, he underwent a second sur­ More than dying, nothing is done. looked like a friendly butcher leaning over all the light switches gery (a spinal fusion) which did not bring mo­ But as toads drinking snot. lN his.counter of clouds. We all better try pretty hard bility; for the first time he was able to tour in We laid the little green deer in the to make the scene together as Human Beings public (with his poetry/jazz readings in Calif­ Cloud over me this cry, this togethering fragrant grass. ornia, New York and Canada) and was invited of a last darkness— But this is a book that can't really be quoted— "How are we going to find the road, Or before very long, to the Brussels World Fair. However, he was I think your noble little sons are you have to read it yourself. Fragments can't Albert?" . there won't be any scene left tragically prevented from accepting this honor. thieves and cutthroats. begin to catch the awe and mystery of the worlds I was trying to think of something else. ...for anybody to make.' Instead, on June 13, 1959, Patchen underwent he creates and makes us aware of. I thought as hard as I could. He won't bend. He has never applied for mem­ throat surgery; and it was during this procedure, and realities from the Patchen universe: After finishing Sleepers Awake I was completely "Perhaps we can find some of the things In book after book, poem after poem, it keeps bership in any of the established literary move­ while under total anesthesia, that he suffered converted — I went out and got as many of his we want here, Priscilla," I said. coming through: ments. He's talking about life. He names the another injury to his spine and is once again (How do you like this?) books as I could afford. The style setting First "Like a nice juicy steak maybe," she enemies of man. And his outspokeness in the rendered helpless and painfully bedridden." ^^^^^^N^ The cave was lined with blue fur. A Will and Testament. The haunting They Keep said, laughing. PEACE OR PERISH preface to An Astonished Eye probably scared The letter goes on to explain that another Riding Down All the Time. The Selected Poems, princess sat near the entrance/ and in "What would you like with it?" some people off! major operation was scheduled for January 1961 — ^vna^Rfe&r* her hand she held a chalice made of and his other major prose work, the amazingly "Isn't that a wee bit cruel, Albert?" MERCY TRUTH FREEDOM PEACE PEACE PEACE and that no money was available, nor was there gold. She drank of the wine and softly funny and tender Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. "No, I've been thinking. What would PEACE LOVE KINDNESS TRUST These poems cover the ten years of my any guarantee that he would be saved. Readings, died. In all of these books, both poem and prose, you —" writing life. There shouldn't be any point concerts and other events were suggested as fund move valid to them precisely because it's not of Far away, almost to the end of the one thing is clean this is'a man speaking— "Well..." OR here in trying to add to what the poems raising means, as well as direct contributions. the head-in-sand variety; he is fully aware of most distant land, her lover paused at often embittered and angered by the existing say; but perhaps a few flat statements might the dark and evil, yet can still sing of the his task of creating a new being. inhumanities of the world, yet still joyfully (She goes on to describe in detail a feast of a not be wasted (people sometimes protest good. He believes because he has to, or sur­ Two things walked through the shadows aware of the hope and beauty that has not been meal, and as she speaks a man appears pushing d that 'modem poetry1 is too obscure) so, in render to complete helplessness and despair. which like a woolen shawl hung on the fully ground underfoot by the march of our 'civ­ a cart, and serves her the meal she imagined.) oo plain English: I am opposed to all war. And his belief is catching. — more than once shoulders of the air. Their faces were ilizations.' are m I don't believe human beings should kill I've seen people turn to his books in utter des­ streaked with yellow chalk and a single "But how! Where!" she said in a sort L M™ e each other. I am opposed to all violence— pair, only to come away smiling. To many, horn grew out of their foreheads. It was of choked way. d for whatever reason. I believe that wars Patchen is much much more than an author — night when they reached the cave. "I advise eating it while it's still hot, will only end when men refuse to murder he is a I ight burning in a darkness that grows They did not touch her. They moved madam," the man said. one another — for whatever reason. heavier every minute. As long as men such as to a comer away from the world, and, Patchen has been called the "laureate of the I believe these things as a man and a him live there is hope for the human race. lowering their beautiful, sad heads, "I didn't realize I was so hungry myself," doomed youth of the third world war/" but he revolutionist. For I believe wars will only His experiments in form and style have already wept. 1 said, forking a very plump veal chop is much more than that. He is a symbol of the end when the present murderous forms of begun to show their influence in works published, Mixing disgust, beauty, anger and visions it onto my plate. It didn't have so much as desperate hope of all humans for a better world society are allowed to die — and all men and in works yet to be published —• both prose rises to an insistent, affirmative climax: a fleck of fat on it. through the belief and practice of humanity to are at last permitted to live together as and poetry. The French translation of Moonlight "I'll believe anything now,"Priscilla man. He towers as a giant over the whimpering brothers. was widely read and several authors have adapted God, we shall accept the terms of your said, between mouthfuls of steak. "dis-affiMates" and their systematic avoidance of several of his concepts to their own works. (Guess world. "And why wouldn't it be easier to be­ reality. He is involved, he cares, Henry Miller And 'who wants to get involved with somebody who gets the credit for the invention?) In Am­ That we may not kill. (mjoJdbh 7 lieve than to doubt?" I said, biting into quotes him on the general world condition: "It's who takes everything so seriously' ' erica, A Singular Man by J. P. Donlevy has That we may not hate. my piece of whole wheat bread which was always because we love that we are rebellious; Albion Moonlight was first printed as a limited strong echoes of Patchen's innovations in style— That the things of labor belong to all men. &Qmm\ which was covered with buck wheat honey. it takes a great deal of love to give a damn edition at Patchen's own expense, then bter re­ and if the influence wasn't direct, at least Pat­ That the things of spirit live in all men. one way or the other what happens from now on; The little deer was quietly cropping ten­ printed by Padell of New York. If it received chen paved the way. That the things of God are on earth for I still do. The situation for human beings is der shoots on the river bank. He'd had more than a passing mention in publications us­ And even more important is the fact that the use of all men. hopeless. For the while that's left though, we a nice swim and his coat shewn beautifully ually pertaining to such matters as reviews and Patchen's influence is beginning to show in can remember the Great and the gods." in the moonlight. criticism at the time, the notices have been wel people's thoughts. As Alex Comfort puts it, None shall kill when all. are completed. "Well...!" Priscilla said, settling her Yet, he still believes«that it's there — and buried"- because I haven't been able to find any. writing in a preface to a 1946 English edition of None shall hate when all are at love. third cup of coffee back into its saucer. his works are the proof of this faith. The same goes for Sleepers Awake. Patchen poems: And this was an opening for me — a hoping. "I'd be willing to invest in a few more But if his books are destined to be the tomb­ His books have brought him very little financial To be totally aware of the insanity of the world, shares of this little old world right at this stones for our times, then at least this world will reward, and, when noticed by critics at all, have "If the spirit of Patchen comes to reach yet to hope...I had to see more. Of course minute." have had its epitaph forged by one who loved it occassioned a great deal of hostility. The dust the new conscript generation, if his poetry none of the bigger bookstores had ever heard of "It's a wonderful world," I said. "Only deeply. And did his best to save it. jacket of the second edition of his Cloth of the and attitude to poetry gives the next gen­ The Journal of Albion Moonlight. sometimes people forget that almost every­ Tempest contained nothing but quotes from un­ eration a voice, there will be a sound in "Kenneth who?? How d'ya spell it?" thing has a side they can't see unless they-" I! favorable reviews; "finally, however, I feel that the street that will not be rain." So it wasn't until six months later, when one "Unless they what, Albert?" the poems in this collection do not 'satisfy:' and darkening afternoon in a small dusty shop the "Unless they believe it's there." And what of the man? He was bom December I trace this dis-satisfaction to the poet's lack of And it has begun to happen—in a book of his man nodded, walked to a shelf and came back 13, 1911 in Niles, Ohio, where his father was a body of sharp and empirically genuine ideas— Some money was raised, the operation was poems from the library I found this scrawled in with a faded second or third hand copy, that I a mill worker. At an early: age he went to work of perhaps a political and psychological nature." performed — but the circumstances remain prac­ pencil: "There IS hope for man! Long Live finally got it. I took it home and flipped It is hard to believe that the man who writes in the mills himself. He spent a year in an ex­ And, "Patchen is not a serious poet. And his tically the same today. Patchen!" through it. The typography ran wild huge cap­ in Albion Moonlight: Yet, Patchen is that man; the'man who sees perimental college at the University of Wisconsin. fulsome self-indulgence, combined with the con­ Recently, New Directions reprinted Albion Kenneth Patchen is a genius—and if you can ital letters sprawled through conventional pages, the horror of a world of mass executions and Besides distinguishing himself academically he tinual intrusion of a personality that insists on Moonlight and other titles as paperbacks, though ignore his work and meaning, it's not him that statements stared from the margins, stories heaped Carol was dying. metropolis melting bombs, yet can still affirm was on the track and football teams. Then came talking, singing, weeping, fighting, and cooing many are still out of print. Several recordings loses so much. on narratives, weaving together for a while,only Blood dripped down her face. the dignity of man and create islands of hope several years of rambling around the country, to itself, is very trying..." "By these standards, of him reading from his works have been issued, to separate again and run off in small type down Her legs had been hacked off at the* out of all that is beautiful in the often unseen working at whatever came in hand. In 1934 Patchen is not a poet at all." and more are still to be released. (But only the edge of the page — it was a riot of swarm­ thighs. side of the heart of man. He believes that it's he married Miriam Oikemus, a really wonderful And that's exactly it — by these standards. God and Folkways Records knows when.) So ing impressions. I taped them up as well as I could but there. person, to whom all of his books are dedicated, How can you measure a giant whose subject there is a ripple of recognition, but nowhere man, i t*S That night I started to read it. I read until the bandages would get washed out of my Who can deny the mounting, yea-saying be­ and who inspired his lyric and tremendously matter is nothing less than life itself by the near what is deserved. At present, over half of my eyes could barely focus. Even as I slept hands and her-screaming made the snot lief, in the beautifully designed An Astonished moving Love Poems. In 1935-36 his poems began yardsticks designed to evaluate the output of his titles are unavailable. YOU the haunting, disturbing images ran through my stand in my throat. I got down on my Eye Looks Out of the Air (the first edition of to appear in such publications as The Saturday neutered adjective/infinitive splitting, midgets, It seems strange to me that this country has to mind. The next day I shook my head clear and knees and tried to plug up the horrible which, by the way, was printed after hours tn Review of Literature. In 1936 he received a whose spheres of interests are very little wider deny, and through indifference all but destroy began again. I waded, crawled and soared wounds with my fists...a whole batch of a CO. camp during WW II: Guggenheim fellowship for his first book of verse, than the abstracted "freshly plucked, dewy daisy" its greatest creative spirits while they live, only Reprinted from AVATAR