LOTRINGER'S NOVA CONVENTION

Counter culture
Nova Convention
at Columbia,
hungering for change
in those wild revolutionary days
of the flesh and pot
wishing for liberation
made from a body
of pop surreal culture,
John Cage showed up
Patti Smith,
Ginsberg offered a kiss
Burroughs a puff
and Zappa his laughter
yet even in high semiotics
you never forgot
those early days of hiding
in the fascist abyss.