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    1 Ai Weiwei, O Future, & Aliah Rosenthal - Hum Bom!
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    3 Saul Williams & Thurston Moore - A Prophecy
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Vocals: Yoni Wolf
Music production and arrangement by: Yoni Wolf & Josiah Wolf
Written by: Allen Ginsberg, Jonathan Wolf & Josiah Wolf
Recorder flutes played by: Doug McDiarmid
Published by: May King Poetry Music, & Jonathans Hope Publishing administered by Bird of Terror (BMI)

I went through the book with an "I'll know it when I see it" mentality. I focussed on poems and sections of poems of a certain length, ones that felt like they had a rappable cadence, and ones that had content I felt I could relate to and embody. I had a process of marking potential candidates with color coded post-it notes: red for cadence, yellow for length, green for content. Along with one or two others, "Death On All Fronts" found itself with 3 post-its. I read it outloud several times and the phrasing fell into place easily. I knew it was the one. - Yoni Wolf, October, 2020

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“DEATH ON ALL FRONTS”

“The Planet Is Finished”

A new moon looks down on our sick sweet
planet
Orion’s chased the Immovable Bear halfway
across the sky
from winter to winter. I wake, earlier in bed, fly
corpses
cover gas lit sheets, my head aches, left temple
brain fibre throbbing for Death I Created on all
Fronts.
Poisoned rats in the Chickenhouse and myriad
lice
Sprayed with white arsenics filtering to the
brook, City Cockroaches
stomped on Country kitchen floors. No babies
for me.
Cut earth boys & girl hordes by half & breathe
free
say Revolutionary expert Computers:
Half the blue globe’s germ population’s more
than enough,
keep the cloudy lung from stinking pneumonia.
I called in Exterminator Who soaked the Wall
Floor with
bed–bug death–oil: Who’ll soak my brain with
death–oil?
I wake before dawn, dreading my wooden
possessions,
my gnostic books, my loud mouth, old loves
silent, charms
turned to image money, my body sexless fat,
Father dying,
Earth Cities poisoned at war, my art hopeless—
Mind fragmented—and still abstract—Pain in
left temple living death—

Allen Ginsberg - Cherry Valley, September 26, 1969
Fall of America Poems: 1965-1971, City Lights, 1973

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from Allen Ginsberg's The Fall of America Volume II, track released October 6, 2023
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Renowned poet, world traveler, spiritual seeker, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human and civil rights, photographer and songwriter, political gadfly, teacher and co-founder of a poetics school. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) defied simple classification.

Ginsberg parlayed his fame and network of connections into a modestly successful career in music.
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