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When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?

— Allen Ginsberg America (1956)

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Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall.

HOWL (1955)

Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen!

Howl (1956)

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

The war is language,
language abused
for Advertisement,
language used
like magic for power on the planet.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

America (1956)

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