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[Heidi]

Yeah, I expect this will sink like a stone, but for anyone who hasn't read Allen Ginsberg's "Howl, " have a taste of one of my favorite poems of all time:

Howl
by Allen Ginsberg

HOWL

For Carl Solomon

I

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machin-
ery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
contemplating jazz,


The full text of Howl: http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/poems/howl.txt