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mm hmm. In the book called Howl And other poems by Ginsburg. There is a poem called Sunflower Sutra which deals with an experience that Ginsberg had in Kerouac's company uh in san Francisco, he says at the beginning of the poem, I walked on the banks

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of the Tyne can banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a southern pacific locomotive to look at the sunset of the Box House hills and cry. Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole companion. We thought the same thoughts of

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the soul, bleak and blue and sad eyed, surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of material. Jack Kerouac's contribution to american literature is perhaps not as important as his influence on a whole generation of America's young. And whenever literate men gathered to discuss the rebellion

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of the 1960s, Kerouac's name will be prominent. Ben Williams reporting for eyewitness news from Upper Grand Avenue in North Beach.