Artworks

Corita Kent

stop the bombing, 1967

Screenprint

15 3/4 x 23 in (40 x 58.4 cm); framed: 18 3/4 x 26 in (47.6 x 66 cm)

(Inv# CK19-025.b)

Transcribed Text:

I am in Vietnam--who will console me?

I am terrified of bombs, of cold wet leaves and bamboo splinters in my feet, of a bullet cracking through the trees, across the world, killing me--there is a bullet in my brain, behind my eyes, so that all I see is pain I am in vietnam--who will console me? from the sixoclock news, from the headlines lurking on the street, between the angry love songs on the radio, from the frightened hawks and angry doves I meet a war I will not fight is killing me--I am in vietnam, who will console me?

Stop the Bombing