Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Allen Ginsberg's Last Meal...


Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American Beat poet.
He is best known for Howl a long poem about consumer society's negative human values.
With a classic opening line "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", Howl became scandalous and was actually banned due to for obscenity. However the piece stood on it's own through 1st Amendment Rights.
Ginsberg hung out with the likes of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and John Clellon Holmes and other greats of the Beat generation. Thus gave birth to the Hippie generation, and hell it all went downhill from there. Hell, even the FBI put him on the watch list as a major security threat. A threat from what I'll never know. Perhaps the Man or the Establishment that beats us down everyday...you dig?

Ginsberg ran into some health issues during the late nineties. Really wasn't good news as the diagnosis was liver cancer. He died on April 5th, 1997. Before he died, he had one last meal (don't we all?)

It was:


Fish Chowder.


He never finished the meal, and the remnants of the meal are actually frozen in the interests of an Ginsberg museum sometime in the near future.

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