so I’m listening to him read it from 1959 and it’s clear people were preoccupied with abusing medicines and quasi-medicines (mescaline) way before i was borne on wings of steel.
he’s nothing less than obsessed with the problems of getting and staying high and the inevitable coming down.
#ginsberg
SGC once said that he was never scared of the first drink, it was always the last one that he worried about.