The Beats
Apr 30th, 2019 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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Gregory Corso was sitting in the window of Allen Ginsberg’s East Village apartment – two, three hours, just sitting in silence. He had vowed to himself not to be a willing participant to any further chaos. Just to be every day, it took everything. You could be having a really nice time at the beach or the park one minute and in the next minute there could be cops with meaty red faces gassing and clubbing you. Once at a reading some lady asked him, “What’s an id?” and he waited a bit before answering, “Eighteenth-century sea captains carousing in Surinam.”
From Guest Contributor Howie Good
Howie is the author of The Titanic Sails at Dawn (Alien Buddha Press, 2019).