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Beats In Kansas: The Beat Generation in the Heartland


TEN TIMES THE CHRIST

From
DOMINION and other poems
by Alan Russo, 1977

Cover art by Robert Branaman


Ten times the Christ
scratched Victory across the wall
and each time it was erased.
The elected victim rises
from the tomb of the flesh
to skywriting, atomic flowers
and symmetry on a grander scale than nature's.



© 1977 Alan Russo; Page © 2011 George Laughead
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