Back in my youth (in my 20's), when I tried my hand at acting for a while, I was a member of a touring theatre group. One of my tour-de-force's was a a section of Howl. While I remember the staging of my performance-almost every turn and gesture, I can't recite the lines any more. I'm pretty sure they are not found in the film. And I had at the time little understanding of the significance of the poem itself. Sad to say, Allen Ginsberg is little appreciated by modern gay folk for his groundbreaking pre-Stonewall influence on the gay liberation movement. In 1957, when the events of the film took place, I was only a sophmore in high school.