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only 15? so you are a reagan baby! you reagan kids get me. golly. i'm a carter kid so my early years were influenced by southern gentility. but seriously if you want to get into so called classical american music aka jazz on the verbal tip, definitely check out sonia sanchez and amiri baraka. they have more of a historical consciousness than the pure religiousness of the beats like ginsberg and kerouac. but they are not to be confused historically speaking. kerouac and ginsberg were born in like the 1930s and sanchez and baraka were born like ten years later. so there is a gap there to be reckoned with or not reckoned with but at least noted. in other words kerouac and ginsberg could still hold the sceptre for beat royalty because they paved the way. go nancy reagan!
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