I am lonely, Neal, alone, and always I am frightened. I need someone to love me and kiss me and sleep with me; I am only a child and have the mind of a child. I have been miserable without you because I had depended on you to take care of me for love of me, and now that you have altogether rejected me, what can I do, what can I do?
ALLEN GINSBERG in a letter to Neal Cassady, November 1947. The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan ; Da Capo Press, 2008.
