** Original copies of this rarity. Sealed! Few copies available **  Volume five of the series, again a double-LP, with Anne Waldman, John Giorno, William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & John Cage all gracing the iconic cover, sitting in business attire at a boardroom-style table. Including readings from them, and Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Jackie Curtis, Frank O’Hara, Maureen Owen, Charles Bukowski Ken Kesey, Tony Towle, Jack Spicer, Peter Orlovsky, Taylor Mead, Michael McClure "Don't you just love these album covers? On this one we got Giorno, Burroughs, Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, and John Cage sitting in business attire at a boardroom-style table. Like a tongue firmly in cheek version of the 'Boards and Goverments of the World concluding their filthy deals to sell out the unborn forever', as Burroughs wrote in the classic poem "Last Words of Hassan Sabbah". Except the deal isn't quite as filthy, other than the frequently 'filthy' language that some of this subversive poetry sends forth into the ether. This comes from a golden age when the world was fresh from the virtual censorship of the fifties, to an age where you could say virtually anything you wanted. This freedom is gradually being reversed from both a liberal and a conservative angle. The liberal side of this nu-censorship, and the most insideous,is the constant drive to 'not offend'. Just today Mark CockZuckerberg said there must be "rules on harmful content" on the internet....is this Hologram, and or his clones, (I'm sure he's a fake human, with fake emotions running a fake personal information gathering corporation) taking the piss? There's nothing more harmful than the tsunami of Lies allowed to stand as fact on his/its anti-freedom through a falsely percieved conceptual freedom digital sewer of a web address. Should be shut down in the morning and a not for profit alternative set up the next day......without compensation. Then we have the problem of who fact-checks the fact-checker?......in two words,it's "TOTALLY CORRUPT!".
Then there's the argument that this liberalism is in fact a deliberately proffered Inverted conservatism, which one can't rule out. We live in an era where we can't tell our arse from a hole in the ground.I can't tell if that's a deliberate strategy to divide any possible opposition or not, because... I Can't tell the difference between my arse and a hole in the ground.
Again I'm not in a position to argue this case, which is becoming similar to arguing for or against the existence of God, but i'm almost certain,and thats as good as it gets, that God doesn't exist, and that the new era of repression by information cancelling alternative truths probably does exist.Its a classic Burroughsian data Control scenario.Like playing recordings of Gunshots in a riot as a cop witnesses his buddy go down. As agent provocateurs rile up the crowds." They're firing at us!" Result....we get Trump, we get Brexit, we get democratically elected Dictators. The sad thing, this isn't paranoia, it's just that we've all been spammed into a new dark age of Ignorance! And it's this new 'Freedom' that's done it to us.
We should have listened to the Dial-A-Poem Poets the first time around.....now its too late.Its just nostalgia." Die or D.I.Y.

Side Three
C1 - Frank O’Hara: Ode To Joy, To Hell With It (New York, September 1963)
C2 - Joe Brainard: Excerpt from I Remember (Calais, Vermont, July 1970)
C3 - Clark Coolidge: Small Inventions: Suite V (Plurals) Secante, Suite IV (Mills College, California, January 1969)
C4 - Jim Carroll: Excerpts from The Basketball Diaries (GPS, New York, March 1969)
C5 - John Cage: Mushroom Haiku (St. Mark’s Church, New York, April 1972)
C6 - Bernadette Mayer: These Stories About After The Revolution (New York, September 1970)
C7 - Michael Brownstein: Geography (GPS, New York, November 1970)
 
Side Four
D1 - Brion Gysin: I Am That I Am (BBC, London, 1958)
D2 - John Sinclair: The Destruction Of America (Berkeley Poetry Conference, California, July 19, 1965)
D3 - Anne Waldman: How the Sestina (Yawn) Works (GPS, New York, June 9, 1972)
D4 - Heathcote Williams: I Will Not Pay Taxes Until (GPS, New York, March, 1969)
D5 - David Henderson: The Louisiana Weekly No. 1 Ruckus Poem Part 1 (GPS, New York, December, 1968)
D6 - Bobby Seale: Excerpt from Fillmore East Speech (New York, May 20, 1968)
D7 - Kathleen Cleaver: Excerpt from Fillmore East Speech (New York, May 20, 1968)
D8 - Allen Ginsberg: Blake Song: Merrily We Welcome In The Year (Corning Community College, New York, November, 1971)