Is your first idea always your best idea? Thomas Hall tells us what he thinks and gives us something to ponder.

The first time I saw it, I was 12. It was in the local library- I was reading a book on the lives of the Beat poets, and along with all of the historical ephemera was “the list.” At the time, being young and impressionable, I copied down “the list,” and sought to make every item on it as familiar as the back of my hand. I read “the list” daily, trying to absorb it’s wisdom and understand the deep meanings that I was sure were mine if I just understood “the list” as well as Allen Ginsburg, the man who compiled it…

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