tion and pauses as though it were an undisturbed flow from the mind to the paper. In "CIA Dope Calypso" Allen Ginsberg uses these tactics to write about the CIA's involvement in drug smuggling. His poem is racing with beats and rhythms, each word thriving off of the other, never ending, streams of consciousness; all of these suggested by the absence of punctuation, Ginsberg's poem flows smoothly yet pulsates as fast as a heartbeat bringing it to life and pulling us in. The poem is written in such a way that it is almost in the form of a song, there is a verse and then after every verse he reverts back to the same line "Sup
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