REVOLUTION
REVOLUTION
ELDRIDGE
CLEAVER
Get your shit together be
ready
Tell your friends be
the first on
your block
My God Man be
serious
What would Che say
?
Kill a pig a day fuck in the streets wear
berets
Quote Mao
If you like this poem
it isnt for you
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friend
five sticks/electric cap
BIG BEN (Americana)
One hand (You only tell the hour)
to fasten 1 wire from the dry cell to the cap.
to fasten the other from dry cell to hole in the clock (at 12)
BREAK THE WIRE/leave life space
& thence along the hand to the cap/
when clock strikes 12/strikes wires/bang)
the bundle wrapped in barbwire & all
in a ceegar box (like a goodie)
guess the time & leave it with a friend:
(SOMEONE WHO KEEPS SAYING HE’S YOUR FRIEND)
think of it as a surprise party
that started in Chicago.
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banks are good / a little dangerous loan stores
are just about as fat as you might think.
A&P on Saturday before they
make the pickup. Charlotte Ford
has a kid. Nice kid.
someday go to Harvard.
God is love. Che takes the collection.
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what to do in the meantime
apply for a passport
youd have to be in canada five years before
you could get one there
(what could happen in canada in five years?)
take
an adult education first aid class
and the necessary equipment
know
when it happens
be ready
to fight/run
shave/haircut
its the life not the lifestyle
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dynamite he push
up packt clay
you punch against
a cold crack in the cold mortar/time fuse
more safe to run.
abt. 20 feet of clean fuse fixed to
mercury cap 10-15 sticks 60% tri-
nitroglycerine only to say
thank you Fort Wayne
care of Bobby Hutton
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it is not too soon to think of survival
where you will run and
who will take you in how
you will live
and what you will do to stay alive/these
are things to concern yourself with a
man in a cellar with flat bread
is better off
than a dead example
where is your cellar do you
have bread
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Under the car/near the wheel
a hose /’bout
the width of a cigar. this
cut
while they’re in drinking coffee.
Huey Newton still in jail &
squad car running through traffic with no brakes/
nothing to stop it
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when it happens
be sure
to know someone who will know
keep in contact
be ready to run/stay alive
dont cross the detroit river
go north
to the st clair
(marine city algonac roberts landing)
take a boat from a canal
dont worry about a motor
break into a garage for oars/row lonely
now youre there
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think hard about the Lodge/the Ford
where they come together. money-fuckers.
think of them beams-steel-re-
inforced concrete. think about
prima-cord/plastique (found in army boxcars)
think about the sound. this is praise.
a letter to the grave to Malcolm.