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The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

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I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

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My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

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They, that unnamed 'they,' they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

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Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.

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I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

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I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

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I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

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My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

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My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 26th, 1930

Died: January 17th, 2001

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