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    authority to subject art to examination & removal

     

     

    in the best interest of Cincinnati’s alliance with city of Boston half century removed epitomized by protester bearing burden of First Amendment in a way that 27 million idiots for democracy cannot comprehend

    IF YOU GIVE ARTIST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SOON EVERY AMERICAN WILL WANT IT

    read the sign in Cincinnati but uncle! uncle! does constitutionality not cover inclusion of every working bloke immortalizedby Lawrence with Mellors banging master Chatterley’s wife what wouldour Founding Fathers believe about Nabokov between pages of Lolita’s literaryform not the legs of nymph next door does constitutionality not cover contributionof Henry Miller’s prose stimulating circulation in lions afflicted by chronic pelvic lock syndrome when passion swells from Tropic Of Cancer what would our fathers choose--fantasy or flesh with woman alive & naked on Anais Nin’s pagesof print “come now, come now, come, I tell you” she writes in Delta Of Venus in best interest of literary giant James Joyce the Irish lion of letters defending languageof Ulysses standing on proclamation “….this race and this country and this life produced  me--I shall express myself as I ambut uncle! uncle! does constitutionalitynot cover contribution of Thomas Hart Benton’s Americana as genius owed to ‘all over’composition that altered face of modernism with images breathing social commentary (touch me!--Persephone) what would our fathers do to deny ugliness & pain juxtaposedwith Styron’s literary confessions of Nat Turner exploiting evil of human bondagefostered by American institution of slavery for financial security does constitutionality not counter the prejudice of politician from North Carolina protest against photographyof that guy Robert Mapplethorpe the artist behind camera capturing man thru eyes of homoerotic vision what would our fathers say in defense of  freedom attackedby music resource centers with family affiliation across America committed to censorship of rebellion upholding  Lady Liberty’s high brow culture ofwhiteness as anti-thesis of social boundaries explored Iggy Pop Suicidal Tendencies & Marilyn Manson but uncle! uncle! what would citizens for decency thru law say about the sex appeal of Madonna & attitude of  Ice Cube Monster Cody & 2Pac coming up from the streets selling racial indignity in true spirit of capitalism--God bless America! & screw all the holier than thou hypocrites who covet the authority to subject art to examination & removal

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    JadedJezzabel commented on art & authority

    06-24-2009

    BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE A BOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT MORE CAN I SAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    jRosser

    06/24/2009

    Thanks for taking the time to read me.

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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