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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

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You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.

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Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

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Sometime I'll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.

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Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.

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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

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I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

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Allen Ginsberg

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Born: June 3, 1926
Died: April 5, 1997 (aged 70)
Bio: Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow.
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  1. America
  2. Kaddish
  3. Pull My Daisy
  4. Plutonian Ode
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