\nThey\u2019re hammering on
\nThe roof of my
\nBrain<\/p>\n
They\u2019re hammering
\nThe men
\nThe women
\nThe workers
\nThe angels<\/p>\n
They\u2019re hammering
\nWanting me to open
\nThe sky light
\nAnd let them
\nin<\/p>\n
Garrett Lambrev
\nJune 1983<\/p>\n
\n
(This poem is from <\/i>Dogstar and Poems from Other Planets, a collection of poetry written by Garrett Lambrev from 1964, before he was a member of Peoples Temple, through 1989. \u201cThe Final Punchline,\u201d another poem from the same book, appears <\/i>here<\/a><\/i>. <\/i><\/p>\n (Garrett is a frequent contributor to the jonestown report. His other articles in this year\u2019s edition are <\/i>My friend Teresa King: From the Avenue of the Fleas to Jonestown<\/a><\/i> and Coming Out a Second Time<\/a><\/i>. <\/i>His complete collection of articles for this site appears here<\/a><\/i>. He can be reached at <\/i>garrett1926@comcast.net <\/a><\/i>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They\u2019re hammering on The roof of my Brain They\u2019re hammering The men The women The workers The angels They\u2019re hammering Wanting me to open The sky light And let them in Garrett Lambrev June 1983 (This poem is from Dogstar and Poems from Other Planets, a collection of poetry written by Garrett Lambrev from 1964, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":30382,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30291"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80489,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30291\/revisions\/80489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}