It was considered one of the first uses of the word punk, before the music term.

Punk life was more self destructive and art aligned. Politics, drugs, sex, art, poverty, and alienation made punk, at least in the early stages.

Williams Burroughs described punk as someone in prison that takes it in the butt.

Punks hated hippies. To punks, hippies were privileged kids that could always go home and get bailed out. Punks were treated like scum and fought for what they believed in.