Allen’s great impressionistic diary poem, “Wichita Vortex Sutra” (later included in the 1968 City Lights volume, Planet News) can be heard here (2018 update – originally on You Tube but no longer) in an early version, (here titled “Automobile Poesy to Nebraska”), recorded the year previous, at a benefit reading in Manhattan for the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, alongside contributions from fellow poets and anti-Vietnam War activists, Peter Orlovsky, Ed Sanders, Paul Blackburn, David Antin, Armand Schwerner, Jackson MacLow, and more, and released on the now long out-of-print Broadside album, Poems for Peace< "Turn Right, Next Corner/ The Biggest Little Town in Kansas/ Macpherson/Red sun setting flat plains west streaked/with gauzy veils, chimney mist spread/around christmas-tree bulbed refineries…”….”There’s a nice white door over there/ for me O dear!/ on Zero Street”