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Transcription Of Organ Music: To be so lonely. To be so creative. To be so gifted that you are cursed.

A Supermarket in California: Consumerism that consumes you. Satiation vs hunger fatigue. Cookie-cutter vs uniqueness (and the isolation that accompanies it). Enlightenment vs idealism.

I could write an essay about this poem.

Mary Jo Bang's commentary on Howl: "He registers his objection to the fact of their social outcast status, and highlights the contradiction between a country that says it welcomes difference but then fails to protect the rights of those who are different.