TOO MANY ASHBOOKS AND MATCHTRAYS.

There is a very charming section, featured on the last few pages of Ed Sanders’s 1962 issues of his mimeographed magazine Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts, written by poet Nelson Barr called “A Bouquet of Fuck You’s.” Barr takes the responsibility of granting his various “Fuck You’s” to certain people within the Lower East Side/East Village poetry community, along with some other public figures and government officials.

ISSUE #1: “The following is a list of Fuck-You’s to all and sundry—
…Fuck you Jean Morton- Large nosed/bullshitter searching for order in chaos
[…] Fuck you to Ed Sanders- May Crotch- / Lake stomp him out of his faggot mind.”

Others included, but unquoted, were: Charlie Butterflusch, Kathy Gesner & Mark Samara.

& then followed by an “Editor’s Note” By Ed Sanders:“I agree. All pacifists should be exposed!”

ISSUE #2: “Offering #2” –“Fuck You’s” to: N.Y Police Department, Nelson Rockefeller, N.Y Daily News & Moise Ishombe.

ISSUE #3: -“Fuck You’s” to: “Art Harvey, com-symps & sheis-kopfen, Georgie Lincoln Rockwell & all his dirty wee nazis, nignogs one and all.”

& then followed by an “Editor’s Note” by Ed Sanders: “**NIG-NOG IS A TERM COINED ON THE NASHVILLE-WASHINGTON WALK FOR PEACE. HAS WIDE MEANING TO COVER ALL COM-SYMPS, FOOLS, ORGANIZED COWARDS, SELL OUTS, ASSKISSERS, IDIOITS, POLITICIANS, POWER-HUNGRY PACIFICCTS, ETC. ETC.”

ISSUE # 4: “Offering #4” –this time- “Fuck You’s” to: Hollywood, YAF, the City Fathers of Albany G.A., the American Nationalists.


--yeah, I’ve been doing some kind of research in some archives. so what?