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25: 709: 187:). The poem ends with Ginsberg putting his "queer shoulder to the wheel", although the original draft ended on a bleaker note: "Dark America! toward whom I close my eyes for prophecy, / and bend my speaking heart! / Betrayed! Betrayed!" 171:("America you don't want to go to war/ it's them bad Russians / Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. / And them Russians"), and makes numerous references to both leftist and 623: 448: 315: 750: 257: 203: 156: 89: 61: 769: 108: 68: 784: 586: 484: 415: 138: 42: 556: 46: 75: 743: 508: 250: 613: 358: 57: 400: 736: 291: 243: 35: 492: 678: 774: 658: 516: 393: 351: 283: 130: 82: 8: 779: 608: 574: 230: 724: 331: 299: 176: 128:, written in 1956 while he was in Berkeley, California. It appears in his collection 531: 407: 207: 580: 548: 524: 499: 456: 440: 540: 591: 180: 720: 652: 646: 386: 266: 125: 763: 673: 476: 422: 152: 683: 668: 629: 323: 151:
work, with much of the poem consisting of various accusations against the
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to accuse America of attempting to divert responsibility for the
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