Open Poem To John F. Kennedy

Mailer, Norman

fallout is the hormone of the small town mind a fallout shelter is sex think how warm at the thought are all of Mr. U and little Mrs. U S A bonging the...

...fallout is the hormone of the small town mind a fallout shelter is sex think how warm at the thought are all of Mr...
...President you realize of course that your shelter program for every home owner is sexing up the countryside and killing us in the bigcity bar...
...If this is good for the vitality of the nation (I mean that countryside could stand some sex) then Mr...
...U S A bonging the gong below while bigcity flesh all that blond hair and black hair straight and long short and highly curled floating in through the trees a dew of homogenized bone and blood mist atom bombs are not so bad says small-time in the town mind they disinfect the big city and jazz us to the toes out here in God's Country fingering is lovely on the edge of the grave...
...U and little Mrs...
...President you are a genius and corporation executives living in the suburbs with the five thousand dollar shelters ought to salute you...
...I do...

Vol. 9 • January 1962 • No. 1


 
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