by Ed Sanders

Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
     This selection of nine comes from a 221–glyph manuscript,
          “History of Peace Eye.”

I had learned from my mentor
Allen Ginsberg
to clip articles non-stop
& store them subject
by subject in manilla folders

so I became a Clipper

& began opening files on
the Manson group
& those they were charged with
killing

I decided to close Peace Eye
I’d thought of keeping it open,
or bringing in a partner, but in the end
jusy gave away thousands of books.

Wow, did they flock into the store to get Free!
It was like the old Digger Free Store of ’67
around the corner from Peace Eye
but only for a couple of days.

by Ed Sanders

Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
     This selection of nine comes from a 221–glyph manuscript,
          “History of Peace Eye.”

Nancy had a boy friend named Dick. He was a very nice boy except that he wouldn’t let Nancy see it. “Let me see it,” she said.

by Ed Sanders

Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
     This selection of nine comes from a 221–glyph manuscript,
          “History of Peace Eye.”

I paused by a meat-store
on 2nd Avenue
near 9th

In the meat-store window
there was
a cow’s face
devoid of skin
but its eyes intact

A vision occurred
I didn’t realize it at the time
but it was probably Hathor
the Celestial Cow
of the Egyptian hieroglyphs

I pictured
a cosmic eye
which I instantly named Peace Eye

and a huge sky-Lake overhead
I named Crotch Lake

& then a fast-moving river
flowing out & down
from the Great Lake

leading to Peace Eye

all this
from the vision
inspired

by the skin-less cow’s face
in the window

by Ed Sanders

Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
     This selection of nine comes from a 221–glyph manuscript,
          “History of Peace Eye.”

Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts

Crotch-Lake
Paace-Eye
Number 1