Beatles John Lennon I AM THE WALRUS FDC Illustrated in a Book + Guitar Pick #2

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BEATLES JOHN LENNON I AM THE WALRUS
CUSTOM FIRST DAY COVER + GUITAR PICK #2
WELCOME JOHN LENNON FANS!
You will receive a unique First Day Cover. This 3 5/8 inch by 6 1/2 inch First Day Cover shows a custom-made Walrus/Strawberry Field Forever colorful cachet. The purple gradient stamp is the 7 September, 2018 USPS issue with their official John Lennon signature cancellation. You will also receive a custom art, double-sided, white guitar pick as shown.
This FDC is illustrated on page 94 of the 2022 book "Psychedelic Walrus." The book cover and page are shown for reference only. The book is available in the gdme store.
This will be shipped by First Class letter mail.
”I am the Walrus" is a song by the Beatles released in November 1967. It was featured in the Beatles' television film Magical Mystery Tour in December of that year, as a track on the associated British double EP of the same name and its American counterpart LP, and was the B-side to the number 1 hit single "Hello, Goodbye". Since the single and the double EP held at one time in December 1967 the top two slots on the British singles chart, the song had the distinction of being at number 1 and number 2 simultaneously. John Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, which he had attended. The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyse Beatles' lyrics. (Lennon wrote an answer, dated 1 September 1967, which was auctioned by Christie's of London in 1992.) Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding the Beatles' lyrics, decided to write in his next song the most confusing lyrics that he could. The walrus refers to Lewis Carroll's poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (from the book Through the Looking-Glass). Lennon later expressed dismay upon belatedly realizing that the walrus was a villain in the poem. Lennon claimed he wrote the first two lines on separate acid trips; he explained much of the song to Playboy in 1980: The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko ... I'd seen Allen Ginsberg and some other people who liked Dylan and Jesus going on about Hare Krishna. It was Ginsberg, in particular, I was referring to. The words 'Element'ry penguin' meant that it's naïve to just go around chanting Hare Krishna or putting all your faith in one idol. In those days I was writing obscurely, à la Dylan. [...] It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? [Sings, laughing] 'I am the carpenter ...'