What is it about the piece of shit poet, obsessed boy lover, gay drug using piece of shit Allen Ginsberg that the left loves so much?

I was flipping through Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow goes off on a glowing post to this piece of garbage maintaining the left’s consistent love of this talentless hack.

I just finished listening to the 3-CD Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection — I was mostly interested in the classics like Howl and Kaddish, Pull My Daisy and Don’t Grow Old, but the poem that totaly took me away was “Put Down Your Cigarette Rag,” a poetic song that can make me laugh, dance, and sing along even after about 20 listens. It’s also totally stuck in my head and I find myself singing it under my breath as I walk down the street.

There’s a link to the “lyrics” in the post and a link to this piece of garbage performing the video.

My question is a simple one: Why does anyone think this guy has any talent? Something tells me if he was a right wing pro-war type and didn’t lust after young boys, the left would want nothing to do with him, but by and large, he’s an icon.

I don’t get it.

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