How did I get to be 32 and have never heard the name Allen Ginsberg?

I blame it on learning literature in the 80's...in Texas.

And I fully profess that, try as I might, poetry will always make me feel stupid and smart all at the same time....but mostly stupid.

I write all this just to excuse myself for quoting Ginsberg, and hoping that we can agree that there will be no pop quiz later...

Ok..ok, here goes. I love this quote from "America". It made me bark like a seal. Oh but we are all so full of shitake.

"I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie
producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again. "