Post #60187 by kctiki on Sun, Nov 16, 2003 5:35 AM

Oh, and before beatniks and the lost generation were the bohemians, right before the turn of the last century. They were an arty set who sometimes frequented opium dens.

Let's not forget the highly underated hillbilly beat poet, Ernest T. Bass:

I ain't talkin'
I ain't talkin'
The more you're askin'
The more I'm balkin'

Ernest T.'s poems were usually delivered dramatically, tied around a rock thru a glass window.