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Beatitude #5
beatitude 5
Cover artist
Kinsey Gray

  Beatitude #5;      June 6, 1959   
  30 cents

Edited and produced on a kick or hit basis by a few hardy types who sneak out of alleys near Grant Avenue
.....;the only responsible party being:  John Kelly, publisher
at 14 1/2 Bannam Alley ,
San Francisco 11, Ca.

contents:  
 mcClure - scuse - pankovits - anderson -
*mcbride - pike - kirby - hjernstad - meltzer -  harvey - *lipsett - kwock -weiss - chance - *armando - marshall - kerai - karbassi - delattre - Margolis - kaufman - ferlinghetti

   
SAN FRANCISCO:    SATURDAY SCENE

It was clear and early
Sun big
in the otherwise sky --
and Saturday came on
like
the greatest day in the morning;
everything quietly fine --
a few friendly philosophers
in old greasy clothes.
sniffing
the coffee-sharp air
one dog-faced mutt
quizzically reading
canine-prohibitive signs
on the corners of
Washington Square
two nuns
taking the sun
on Grant Avenue (one
sourfaced at something
her holy husband
had left undone;
one younger one
slyly anticipating
an evening visit from
the man with all
the mystical goodies)
one dough-nosed,
bone shouldered wanderer
with pointed beard
and dark glasses
a carload of cops
with long sad faces
because there was
no one to arrest
and the statue of St. Francis
ready to take off
like
a great big bird!

--Richard McBride


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