[12 x 9 inches], one leaf, laid paper, fine. Verso blank. With cartoon image of Richard Nixon releasing a shower of medals (uncredited). Ruggles was a longtime San Francisco poet and activist; he was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and grew up on a dairy farm. " 'Gene's most astounding characteristic is his heart,' said his longtime friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 'He really empathizes with the downtrodden and the down-and-out.' "—SFGate The left trouser leg of that young black marine folded and pinned shut with a medal, is another eyelid filled with Nixon's sleep . . .—from the broadside