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"Howl":

 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, 
 who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and 
      saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tene- 
      ment roofs illuminated, 
 who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes 
      hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy 
      among the scholars of war, 
 who were expelled from the academies for crazy & 
      publishing obscene odes on the windows of the 
      skull, 
 who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burn- 
      ing their money in wastebaskets and listening 
      to the Terror through the wall, 
 who got busted in their pubic beards returning through 
      Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, 
 who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in 
      Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their 
      torsos night after night 

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= about =

[http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ginsberg-fbi.html Allen Ginsberg's FBI file]:

:In a memorandum from Hoover to the Secret Service in 1965, Ginsberg was cited as an "Internal Security--Cuba" case, and a potential threat to the president of the United States. On the document, stamped Secret, Ginsberg was listed as "potentially dangerous" and a "subversive," with "evidence of emotional instability (including unstable residence and employment record) or irrational or suicidal behavior," as having made "expressions of strong or violent anti U.S. sentiment," and as having "a propensity for violence and antipathy toward good order and government." All such items were checked on a form in his file.

= other stuff =

* [http://www.allenginsberg.org/ Official Ginsberg trust site]
* [http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg/home.htm Ashes & Blues]