A friend from the Bay Area sent me a pic of the City Lights bookstore with banners quoting Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem Pity the Nation.  The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about it:

‘Pity the nation’: San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore displays banners warning against tyranny

The poem and its connection to a similar work by Khalil Gibran is in a posting on The Allen Ginsburg Project blog.

Ferlinghetti (Pity The Nation)