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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

by Ginsberg, Allen

...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...Read more of this...

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