A page from the typescript of Ginsberg's Howl
[inserted between lines 1 and 2] who sat all nite rocking & rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish
[inserted in the left margin near line 9] * Meat truck egg
[inserted by line 10] lunged out of subway windows, jumped in the filthy Passaic, leaped on negroes, Cried al over the street, danced on broken wineglasses barefoot smashed their phonograph records of European 1930's German jazz finished the whisky &
[inserted in line 11] groaning
[inserted in line 15] got hi [canceled]
[inserted in left margin by lines 20-21] See p 1 [Ginsberg is proposing a shift here to page 1]
[inserted in left margin by lines 23-26] After free Beer [Ginsberg is proposing to move this so that it follows "not ever one free beer" above]
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