<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569773" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Questions for Allen G.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You Howled in the fifties<br>Kaddished in the sixties<br>Sang your Plutonian Ode in the seventies<br>Told us what you were not in the eighties<br>And pushed us all to eat more grease in the nineties<br>You died the year I graduated from high school<br>And I hadn’t even heard of you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why did you grow your long mad beard? Was it to<br>Give the appearance of a modern mad prophet who<br>Put his mad thoughts into unconventional verse? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or was it to conceal your being gay? No, that doesn’t<br>Sound like you. You were always comfortable in <br>Your own skin. It seemed like another layer of clothing to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What did you mean by “reality sandwiches”? Was it reality<br>Unadorned, unadulterated, with no sweetening <br>From outside forces or people? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What does it mean to look for an angry fix? <br>Does “angelheaded hipsters” have anything to do with Kerouac’s<br>Meaning of the Beat Generation, that is, beatific? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can understand your frequent comparison to Whitman. Both of <br>You clawed at the walls of the society in which you lived in the hopes <br>That the whole edifice would come crashing down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t think any one word can explain a man’s life, like Howl or<br>Kaddish or Sunflower Sutra. But your words left an impact that <br>Can’t be measured by any traditional standards.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Allen Ginsberg I wonder when your words will cease to move one’s soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jesse+Dachyshyn">Jesse Dachyshyn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569773" data-title="Questions for Allen G. de Jesse Dachyshyn" data-description="You Howled in the fifties Kaddished in the sixties Sang your Plutonian Ode in the seventies Told us what you were not in the eighties And pushed us all to eat more grease in the nineties You died the year I graduated from high school And I hadn’..."></div> </div> </div>

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