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"I read Ginsberg now/more so after his death. I can almost smell the tobaco despues de un buen taco (Orlovsky, Burroughs, Corso - the cats in sad wrinkled suits groping for a fix on eternity, a gay immortality"
page 140

This quote comes in a New York City Angelic section. In this the author says he has been reading Ginsberg more after his death. In this passage the author relates Ginsberg's writings about his wanderings in the fifties to his own in the seventies. He also ties in his spanish culture to Ginsberg and tries to get at why he writes. He says that Ginsberg has reached an immortality and will live beyond when he was in his body. The author may be bringing this up because it is what he hopes to acheive.

"I am that paper. I am those words now, the ink burns pyres in every cell."
page 144

This quote comes in a Oyeme Mama section. Previously in these sections, he has talked about how his mother discouraged his writing slightly. She said that he is caught up in himself when he writes. Now however, he appears to be saying that he is his writing. This could symbolize that he has become a published author.