" This work is dedicated to a man who met its author while both were at the Columbia Psychiatric Institute, Carl Solomon.
It mentions people who "in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table." Other figures in this work include the "Chinaman of Oklahoma," people who "journeyed to Denver," "died in Denver," and "came back to Denver and waited in vain," and others who "ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley." Another passage refers to people who "sat through the stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi's, listening to the crack of doom on the hydrogen jukebox." This work is dedicated to a man who met its author while both were at the Columbia Psychiatric Institute, Carl Solomon. FTP, name this poem that begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," a work by Allen Ginsberg.
It mentions people who "in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table.
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