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No Howling, Please
A rebuke to Ginsberg
While acknowledging that the typewriter is indeed holy
I saw the best of my generation
Refuse to howl, not in the situational poverty
Of their birth, not in others’ noise and drugs
Not in their elders’ go-fight-our-wars-for-us
I saw the best of my generation
Doubling up in unfurnished rooms
Doubling up on the day and night shifts
Making each sweated-out life into a poem
I saw the best of my generation
Work
and thus rebuked for their privilege
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