Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Shoutout to Allen Ginsburg

Allen Ginsberg was an eyewitness to the riotsImage via WikipediaJoseph Roux once said that, "Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

Allen Ginsburg showed us all that poetry is sometimes better when it strips down naked and says, "Hey! This ain't pretty, but it's how it is."

And you know what? Sometimes a thing is beautiful in its own way just for being what it is. 
Even Steve Buscemi, as much as I hate to say it.

My favorite Ginsburg poems:





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