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Famous Straightjacket Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Straightjacket poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous straightjacket poems. These examples illustrate what a famous straightjacket poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Howl

...where you pun on the bodies of your nurses the harpies of the Bronx
I’m with you in Rockland
   where you scream in a straightjacket that you’re losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss
I’m with you in Rockland
   where you bang on the catatonic piano the soul is innocent and immortal it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse
I’m with you in Rockland
   where fifty more shocks will never return your soul to its body again from its pilgrimage to a cross...Read more of this...

by Ginsberg, Allen

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