Ache Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.”

Allen Ginsberg

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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

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Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

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