FERLINGHETTI STILL LIVES

Here is one of his spatial colorist pqintings (He ws a drinking buddy of one of my teachers Dvid Baziotes)

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

fortunately we dont have that problem

On the bus again to Veracruz, dropping down fast to flat coast. A tropical feeling — suddenly coffee plantation + palms — everything small except the landscape, horses the size of burros, small black avocados, small strong men with machetes — each still saying to himself Me llamo yo.

did you know he was a painter? I sure didnt and Baziotes ws one of my teachers as a kid. I was 12 years old and was one person away from Larry Ferlinghetti

I don't recall him as a painter, but today I looked them up in Google images. Pretty good work.