Beatnik Suggestions

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play a bongo drum in lieu of speaking

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refuse to leave the house without taking at least three pills

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hallucinate that Walt Whitman came watermelon shopping with you at a supermarket in California

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write a book about your convoluted sexcapades

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publish a poem so controversial that people have to defend its literary merit in court for you

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forget that punctuation exists or over-punctuate

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complain about people drowning in your toilet bowl on open mic night

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write a slam poem about the hippie on crack that stole your Lennon sunglasses

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write poems about anuses

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fuck a cigarette

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murder a sexual predator then call up your friends and have a ‘getting rid of the evidence’ party

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have a man’s wife pay you off to stop having sex with her husband

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die from drinking too much

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take benzedrine then write a 6 page poem about how everything sucks

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write a book on how much you hate your own country in your country's language and fill your country's bookstores with it

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Move to Mexico permanently so you can get heroin for cheap

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Write a poem so controversial that they have a court case about it