Ginsberg Chanting At His Apartment

San Francisco 1965

After meeting Ginsberg for the first time, I was not in Allen's Fell St. apartment long before he rolled up the rug, sat down, and chanted mantras for around an hour. The photo on the right was used on Wes Wilson's Ginsberg poster, Who Be Kind To.

Once, while discussing my Beat photographs with Allen, I mentioned that "I was only there for the last 10 minutes." He said, "You got there just in time."