There was one member of the Beat Generation that expressed his involvment with the criminal underworld of New York City
on more than one occasion. His primary involvment with the criminal underworld was acquiring stolen goods and also dealing
in illegal narcotics. As we all know from the literature of the Beats drugs were in no short supply around this group of people.
Acquiring these goods was made possible by the Mafia and apperently made possible by a Beat middleman. This man would later
go on to write a book called Naked Lunch; his name was William Burroughs.
There was one member of the Beat Generation that also had dealings with the New York Mafia. Herbert Huncke was a source
of fascination among the other members of the Beat Generation. They viewed him as a person outside of their circle and something
to be studied. Huncke's involvement with the New York mafia had him stealing items of Mafia interest and dealing in narcotics.
Huncke spent most of his time dealing around Times Square, which is why the Beats came to refer to him as the Times Square
Underworld. While the Mafia saw him as small-time criminal, he was a great source of interest to the Beats.
Allen Ginsberg may have had an involvement with the criminal underworld as well. We all know that Ginsberg was commited
to a mental institution called Bellevue from reading his most famous poem "Howl". This is where he met the figure Carl Solomon.
But how did Ginsberg end up in this predicament? It turns out that Allen Ginsberg had some dealings with the Mafia or some
other part of the underworld of New York because he was arrested for having an apartment full of stolen goods and a stolen
car full of stolen goods. Whether these had been acquired by the mafia, Huncke, or somebody else we do not know. However,
at his trial he pleaded insanity which led to him writing one of the most famous poems of the Beat Generation.
