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(an excerpt)
Allen Ginsberg
copyright © 1956 City Lights Books

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 machinery of night ...
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