Sticker Shock #2 (God)

An Alternative Press Bumppersicker by Diane di Prima

A second bumpersticker from the Alternative Press archives, this one by Diane di Prima. Ken Mikolowski, co-founder with his wife Ann, tells me the bumperstickers were meant to be "functional poetry," but doubts this one was "put on any pickup trucks in Alabama."

di Prima is probably best known for her unflinching Memoirs of a Beatnik. Here's an excerpt from her earlier book of prose, Dinners and Nightmares (1961), that begins with a moment of Bohemian life in the East Village in the early 60s:

What Morning Is

First you wake up and it is daylight but wrong with some hood honking a
horn in the street and again till you think you'll go out of your mind and
you're not quite awake so you think rocks yes a rock at his head smash his
face the bastard and then awake with eyes open and Freddie at the
window standing all floppy in silly pajamas saying some people are rude
and you think rude's not the word smash his face, and you say Good
Morning Baby and then you sit up.