The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass, ' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy. Amiri Baraka
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  1. & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

  2. Let there be no love poems written Until love can exist freely and Cleanly.

  3. We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

  4. There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

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