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Allen Ginsberg

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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. …

Allen Ginsberg

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. …

Allen Ginsberg

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! …

Allen Ginsberg

If I were doing my Laundry I’d wash my dirty Iran …

Allen Ginsberg

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Sometimes when my eyes are red …

Allen Ginsberg

I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place …

Allen Ginsberg

I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry. …

Allen Ginsberg

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