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Detail from a portrait of Ginsberg by Elsa Dorfman, 1980.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the early sixties, Don Wilen had just one tax client\u2014Mrs. Sheftel, who ran the candy store on his corner. When Paul Krassner, radical prankster and editor of the satirical journal The Realist<\/em>, printed an interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, the American Nazi Party founder, Wilen wrote in to complain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said,\u201d Wilen recently recalled, \u201c \u2018I\u2019m a Jewish accountant, and respect your right to free speech, but hate\u2014\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Krassner rang him up. \u201cAn accountant! I need an accountant.\u201d Now Wilen had two clients.<\/p>\n

One day Wilen\u2019s mother, babysitting, picked up the phone. \u201cSome friend of yours, making believe he\u2019s the famous poet Allen Ginsberg.\u201d Wilen now had three.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wilen showed up at Ginsberg\u2019s East Twelfth\u00a0Street apartment. The buzzer was broken. Ginsberg opened the window and threw down an old sock with the key. Inside, Ginsberg was completely nude but for his heavy black glasses and a stars-and-stripes-banded stovepipe hat. Ginsberg\u2019s partner, Peter Orlovsky, lay spread-eagled on the couch. Gregory Corso read poems aloud from his upcoming book. Bobby, Ginsberg\u2019s Brazilian houseboy, in a tutu, waved a feather duster nearish the toppling towers of books and street-rescued decor. All were various degrees of stoned. \u201cIt was so fascinating I just couldn\u2019t\u2014bear it!\u201d But Ginsberg put on clothes and he remained.<\/p>\n

The mild-eyed, equable Wilen, now remarkably youthful at seventy-nine, was recruited to the field by a \u201ccharismatic\u201d Brooklyn College accounting professor. He wasn\u2019t artsy, by his own admission, but his first wife, Linda, was. Ginsberg and Linda took long walks, talking philosophy, at Ginsberg\u2019s rustic upstate farm. Wilen and their toddler daughter, Rachel, trailed behind. Ginsberg played his pipe organ for Rachel to dance. Once Wilen found the two passed out asleep. Wilen and Ginsberg became close friends. \u201cHe liked me as his view to the outside world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ginsberg, Wilen said, was a \u201csophisticated businessperson. His buddies, not so much.\u201d Wilen helped Ginsberg set up the Committee on Poetry\u2014a nonprofit backing impecunious artists while escaping taxes funding the Vietnam War\u2014and stood guard, at benefits, against IRS agents showing up primed to seize an evening\u2019s take. Wilen also advised William Burroughs, Corso, and Orlovsky on fiscal matters. Rarely accepting pay, he received books, gratefully inscribed, in return.<\/p>\n

Orlovsky\u2019s inscription to Wilen in his 1978 Clean Asshole Poems and Smiling Vegetable Songs<\/em> includes holistic health advice in his distinctive idiom: \u201cDoc. said he saved his sons Life w\/ raw Persimmons,\u201d \u201c1 tea spoon of bee pollen, a day, chewed well has all 22 ellements in the Human Body.\u201d Late one night, Wilen\u2019s second wife, Laurie, recounts, Orlovsky rang their doorbell saying he wanted to plant raspberry bushes, fertilized with bone marrow, behind their house. As with all such impromptu demands, \u201cDon asked no questions. All he said was, \u2018I\u2019ll get a flashlight.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Wilen was too busy to contemplate his role in history. He taught business at a university, fell into a chairship, left that, got a law degree. His niche clientele expanded: unions, an activist attorneys\u2019 guild, Pete Seeger. \u201cNo one had met a leftist accountant before.\u201d Wilen tried to keep his workaday and Beat-related lives separate. But his cover was blown when a colleague spotted him on a public TV show in which Ginsberg and friends, seated on floor cushions, rapped about politics and culture. \u201cI\u2019ve always been a wanderer,\u201d Wilen shrugged, \u201cjust stepping into things.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the nineties, Ginsberg fell ill. Wilen worked on the sale of his papers to Stanford to finance a move to a loft with an elevator. A Times<\/em> op-ed mocked the Buddhist Ginsberg as a sellout, embracing the \u201creal American mantra, the dollar sign,\u201d over \u201cthe \u2018Om.\u2019 \u201d Wilen wrote back in his defense: \u201cWho am I to be outraged? A humorless bean counter. An accountant. Not just any accountant. Allen Ginsberg\u2019s accountant. \u2018Om\u2019 yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout their friendship, Ginsberg insisted Wilen attend his legendary parties. Like any sensible accountant, Wilen keeps regular hours. \u201cOne time I said, look, I\u2019m tired. Ginsberg said, just come, you won\u2019t be sorry. And Bob Dylan was there. They played till three A.M.<\/small> I was a wreck!\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelley Salamensky is a scholar and writer. Her work has appeared in print and online in\u00a0<\/em>The New York Review of Books,<\/em> The Believer,<\/em> The Paris Review, and elsewhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsa Dorfman photographed Ginsberg throughout her\u00a0career. See more of her photos here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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