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+=====CAMPBELL HOWL=====
+by Geoffrey Bower (Ph.D. 1997)
+(with apologies to Allen Ginsberg)
+<code>
+I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Sparc 20s, starving
+        hysterical, naked,
+dragging themselves through Berkeley streets at dawn for veggie burritos,
+Angel headed hipsters searching for the ancient heavenly connection to
+        the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
+who went from Lick to Keck to Hat Creek and back to Lick,
+who proposed to NASA, NSF, IAU but never NEA,
+who communed with the holy and cordial Shu Arons McKee Davis Silk Theory Mind
+        on matters celestial,
+who read ApJ articles until the print smeared onto their hands and they ate
+       the paper itself to be free,
+who fedexed and faxed and snail- and e-mailed preprints to every continent and
+        flashed their Super Mongo plots by overhead in the company of
+        the Establishment,
+who bent machines into the shape of the universe and gave away the answer,
+who talked talked talked in cars in cafes in offices with open doors,
+who knew IRAF from IRAS and aped AIPS in this apiary on a high hill, no drones,
+        all queens in this honeycomb,
+who sought lighthouses on degenerate shoals and saw lenses in lenses,
+who -- this actually happened -- turned their eyes into darkness and
+        saw an icy stone eaten by the gods,
+who left it all for an afternoon on bicycles until they thought their lungs
+        would burst, knees explode, and they saw the San Francisco Bay
+        vibrate at their feet,
+who drank coffee for 36 hours straight until they had visions of a new
+        Sun and a new Earth,
+alas, C.R., secret hero of these poems, while you are not graduated, I
+        am not graduated.
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where you're madder than I am
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where you must feel very strange
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where you write Chapter One for the eighteenth time
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where you debate Emacs/vi with a mad jazz man
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where the ApJ stalagmites tower over you
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where the elevators run very slowly
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where the Cosmic Gardener grows her tomatoes and the Evil Librarian
+        tends his books
+I am with you in Berkeley,
+        where in my dreams you walk - thesis in hand - out the doors of
+        Campbell Hall.
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