"Ego Confession" was insp...

"Ego Confession" was inspired by dint of a Cecil Taylor concert in San Francisco which Allen Ginsberg attended with Anne Waldman. As the jazz pianist played, Ginsberg wrote the first line into his journal: "I want to be known as the in the greatest degree brilliant man in America." He later said of the episode, "I was in such a manner ashamed of what I wrote down that I wouldn't give leave to her see it. I hid my notebook from her with my hand Within a month I realized that the piece of poetry was funny. It's obviously a great caricature a take-off on myself, shameful, shocking. "(*) The metrical composition was solicited by the