{"id":26508,"date":"2019-05-29T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26508"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:16:46","slug":"allen-ginsberg-told-me-the-world-was-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/allen-ginsberg-told-me-the-world-was-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLEN GINSBERG TOLD ME
THE WORLD WAS ENDING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Allen<\/strong> <\/span>Ginsberg visited my college poetry class in 1969, he said we only had five years left. He said, \u201cI\u2019m afraid to read the papers.\u201d And he said Burroughs claimed we had less than five years.<\/p>\n

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Mark Schilling (L) and Bert Stratton. 1970, hitchhiking from Cleveland to A2. Sign reads “Ann Arbor.”<\/p><\/div>\n

How was I supposed to get through pre-med if the world was ending? The Ann Arbor Bank sign read 15 degrees. The sign at the First United Methodist Church was \u201cAre you going through life with a kindergartner\u2019s conception of God?\u201d Probably. Ginsberg had a beard.<\/p>\n

The first<\/span> Earth Day was in April 1970. People suddenly were talking about duck-down and goose-down sleeping bags instead of the Vietnam war. I bought a bag for $35. The feathers kept coming out the seams. It was sewn-through, so where the thread was, there was no down. The seams were supposed to keep the down from rolling down to one end. It didn\u2019t work too well. I couldn\u2019t even turn in it. It was called a mummy bag. I felt dead. But the world didn\u2019t end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Allen Ginsberg visited my college poetry class in 1969, he said we only had five years left. He said, \u201cI\u2019m afraid to read the papers.\u201d And he said Burroughs claimed we had less than five years. How was I supposed to get through pre-med if the world was ending? The Ann Arbor Bank sign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26575,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26508\/revisions\/26575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}