Beatnik Rant Poem by John Thorkild Ellison

Three cheers for Allen Ginsberg
Who wasn't afraid to have a w*nk!
I love him much more than T.S.Eliot
That clean-shaven man who worked in a bank!

I also like Jack Kerouac
And others of the Beat revolution -
No doubt they'd all have gotten the sack
If they'd worked in a respectable institution!

I've got no time for Robert Graves either
And the priests of Ultimate Inspiration,
Save us from these intellectual snobs
And their endless moralistic constipation!

It all depends if you want your verse
To be taught in schools for the improvement of fools -
Personally I can't think of anything worse,
So start writing NOW and breaking the rules! !