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Thought you might like to read this.
I like the Biblical repetition
History Of the Airplane
And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented
something that could make peace on earth
(if the wrong brothers didn’t get hold of it)
when their wonderful flying machine took off at Kitty Hawk
into the kingdom of birds but the parliament of birds was freaked out
by this man-made bird and fled to heaven
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EDIT - possible © infringement, please visit City Lights instead, link below, to read full poem and others.
http://www.citylights.com/Ferlinghetti/?fa=ferlinghetti_poems
Comments
...but anyone can read it for free by going to the site where I got it from. If I tell people that there is a poem on a site and they go to it...what is the difference?
And if it is his site, then you still don't have a right to post his poem elsewhere.
I've recently had a site which has posted my poems without permission, and which did not remove them when asked, closed down.
The site was poem hunter. Are they breaking the rules? You can click on any published poem.
So some people obviously send in poems, and it says the site is for 'educational' purposes.
But in any case, it's not permissible to reproduce content of any site.
Ferlinghetti doesn't seem to be overly concerned with exclusivity for his print books - publishing those recent poems in full at the site of City Lights, his San Francisco bookshop - but even if he has given Poem Hunter permission, I'd rather send the traffic to his site than theirs!