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Neal Cassady, secret hero of this poem,
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cocksman and Adonis of Denver,
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joy to the memory of his innumerable lays of girls
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in empty lots and diner backyards,
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moviehouses' rickety rows,
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on mountaintops in caves or with gaunt waitresses
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in famillar roadside lonely petticoat upliftings
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and especially secret gas station solipsisms of johns,
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and hometown alleys too.
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Now, I suppose he could have said that,
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the secret hero of these poems,
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this "cocksman," this "Adonis of Denver,"