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If You Think It's Groovy To Rap, You're Shucking

Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 6 June 1971

WHEN YOU are trying to be a suburban Dharma Bum you have to try harder. Between the tennis court and the parking lot I read On the Road 15 times and memorized Howl, and managed only to learn about language.

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