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\nLAWRENCEFERLINGHETTI  \n.  \nCopyright 1958,1959,1960,1961,1966,1967 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:67-23492  \nAll rights reserved.Except 1ur brief passages quoted in anewspaper,magazine,radio,or television review,no part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopying and record-ing,or by any information storage and retrieval system,with-out permission in writing from the Publisher.  \nSome of the poems in this book have been published in thefollowing magazines,to which grateful acknowledgment forpermission to reprint is here given:Beatitude,BetweenWorlds,Big Table,Evergreen Review,New Directions 17,New Directions 19,The Outsider.  \nThe Eisenhower and Berlin poems were first published asbroadsides by Golden Mountain Press,and the Castro poemas a broadside by City Lights Books,though the Berlin poemwas somewhat revised for this book.  \nManufactured in the United States of America.  \nNew Directions Books are published for James Laughlinby New Directions Publishing Corporation,333 Sixth Avenue,New York 10014.  \nTHIRD PRINTING  \nCONTENTS  \nSTARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO  \n5NEW YORK—ALBANY9EUPHORIA11BIG FAT HAIRY VISION OF EVIL14FLYING OUT OF IT18HIDDEN DOOR20HE24OVERPOPULATION28UNDERWEAR33COME LIE WITH ME AND BE MY LOVE36THE GREAT CHINESE DRAGON37TENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF A DINNER TOPROMOTE THE IMPEACHMENT OFPRESIDENT EISENHOWER41SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE OF  \nFAMOUS MASTERPIECES45  \nONE THOUSAND FEARFUL WORDS FORFIDEL CASTRO48BERLIN53THE SITUATION IN THE WEST,FOLLOWED BY A HOLY PROPOSAL58  \nTo PHILLIPS RUSSELL,professor emeritus,in return for some seedshe perhaps didn't know he sowed  \n# STARTINGFROMSAN FRANCISCO\n\nHere I go again  \ncrossing the country in coach trains(back to my oldlone wandering)  \nAll night Eastward...Upwardover the Great Divide and oninto Utah  \nover Great Salt Plainand onward,rocking,the white dawn burstacross mesas,table-lands,  \nall 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