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Exerpt from Ginsberg at Evergreen

Leo: You seem to be consciously -maybe with a bit of humor - taking on the consciousness of a teenager.

Allen: It's that negative thing in the punk music. I don't like this, I don't like that. . . You say I don't like the government where I live, I don't like the dictatorship of the rich, I don't like bureaucrats telling me what to eat. I don't like police dogs sniffing around my feet, I don't like Communist censorship of my books, I don't like Marxists complaining about my looks, I don't like Castro insulting members of my sex, leftists insisting we got the mystic fix.


An Interview with Allen Ginsberg