Becoming A Clipper

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.