Coming in Spring 2005: AMERICA—A PROPHECY: THE SPARROW READER!!!!!

A combination poetry book and self-help manual, Yes You ARE A Revolutionary! offers short, punchy and hilarious poems by Sparrow, the well-known activist, hippie and former Presidential candidate. Included, recipes for making ice, and advice on what a true revolutionary should name his or her dog (Sparrow suggests 'Karl').

Eight books in one, Yes You ARE A Revolutionary is a book of gonzo poetry, sudden fiction and kitchen hints from a Communist, yogic Heloise.

Sparrow is the author of Republican Like Me, which chronicled his attempt to gain the Republican nomination for the President of the United States. He has been widely published in poetry journals for the past twenty-five years, and is a fixture in the Letters section of New York's alt. weekly paper, The New York Press. He lives in Phoenicia, New York, where he practices yoga and is affiliated with the radical activist group Refuse & Resist.

The Celibate Olympics

I will be in the Celibate Olympics
this February, in Oslo.
(The javelin throw is my event.)

Now I am in training–
So I can’t fuck you!

Beautiful Cowards

I have seen many cowards, many beautiful cowards:
Women with long black hair,
Men with large, well-shaped chests.

They are beautiful when they stand, beautiful
when they speak, but most beautiful
when they run from danger: their strong
legs lifting, their hair flowing.

Ovid

Ovid downed a pint of wine and laughed:
"Anyone can write myths!"

Recipe

Fill a football with basil
and throw it around with your friends.
Doesn’t it smell good?

It’s a basil football.

Bear Riding

Bear riding, I love you!
Any two bears, I will ride.

One leg on each, one leg on each.
Bears, carry me away!

Cheap Dollars

I bought six dollars for $5.35.
They were old, torn dollars.

Two of them were written on.
One said: "Love you, Cerise."
One said: "GET OUT OF AMERICA"