This poetry is written in respect for Allen Ginsberg's Howl, and it is my own exploration of American pop culture

Liu, Crystal Haoyang

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Crystal Liu, “American Times”, AmeriQuests 13.2 (2017) 
 
American Times 
 
Are you going to let our emotional life run by Time Magazine? I’m obsessed by Time 
Magazine 
 
1956 Allen Ginsberg addressed America 
1956 Jazzman Duke Ellington  
1957 Attorney General Herbert Brownell 
1958 Missileman VonBran 
1959 Physicist James Van Allen 
1959 American in Paris: Allen Ginsberg 
Did he still read Time Magazine?  
1960 U.S. Airways Boss Quesada 
1961 Russia’s Yuri Gagarin 
1962 Astronaut Cooper   
1963 Spaceman Glenn 
1964 Man of the Year: Martin Luther King, but 
1964 HARLEM: VOTE FOR MISS BEAUX ARTS 1964 
1965 Airforce Pilot Risner 
1966 The Chinese nightmare: Defense Minister Lin Piaw 
1967 The Negro in Vietnam SGT. CLIDE BROWN Jr. 
1968 New man in Vietnam General Creighton Abrams 
1968 New man in Heaven, Neal Cassidy  
1969 Man on the moon 
1970 President Nixon 
1971 The New Rock: Bittersweet and low James Taylor 
1972 Sex & The Teenager 
Now it’s an issue 
1973 The first black super star: Comedian Flip Wilson 
Now you are safe 
1974 Jack Nicholson: The Star with the killer smile 
The smile kills me when you tell me it’s killing me  
1975 Rock’s new sensation: Bruce Springsteen 
1976 Travel 76 Rediscovering America Flag 
Rediscovering America Flag through a Barbie doll?  
Rediscovering America Flag on a motorcycle?  
Rediscovering America Flag from the sunshine beach guy?  
If possible, I don’t mind being an American Barbie doll.  
1977 Nixon Talks 
1978 Deal with China, Deadlock with Israel 
1979 Attacking America, Fury in Iran, Rescue in Pakistan, kill the American Dogs 
1980 Feeling super in Detroit 
1981 High on Cocaine: A drug with status, and menace 
1982 Striking it rich: Steve Jobs of Apple Computer 
Allen Ginsberg saw Steve Jobs 
Bob Dylan sang I need a shot of love 
Buddhist were writing American history 
1983 Nuclear Poker: The Stakes get higher and higher: America’s Perishing  
1984 Now it’s a race 
1985 Children having children: teen pregnancy in America  
Crystal Liu, “American Times”, AmeriQuests 13.2 (2017) 
 
I hate reading about teen pregnancy  
It’s sad 
It’s filled with desire and lavishness and ignorance and cockiness and irresponsibility  
Look at me, I talk like my daddy.  
1986 Sorry America, your insurance has been cancelled 
1987 When China Went Mad 
1987 Bang 
1987 Starting Over 
 
1988 Magician of Musical, After the Triumphs of Evita and Cats, Andrew Iloyd 
Webber brings Phantom to Broadway 
He was famous much longer than 15mins. 
 
1989 This man may turn you green with envy – or just turn you off. Flaunting it is the 
game, and Trump is the name.  
Look at our boy, already a diva back then.  
 
1990 Mandela: Free at last?  
1991 The Russian Revolution  
1992 Why voters don’t trust CLINTON? 
1993 Ascent of a woman 
           Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most powerful First Lady in history.  
           Does anyone have a problem with that?  
Haters hate, history goes on 
1994 Are MEN really that bad?  
1995 Master of the Universe: Bill Gates 
1996 The search for Jesus: What are Christians to believe?  
1997 Bill Gates, thank you. “The world’s a better place.”  
1997 Here comes my generation  
1997 Allen was dead 
He knew it all.  
 


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