Moloch! Mental Moloch! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!

[MnFats]

Allen Ginsberg read "Howl" in public (San Fransicso) for the first time 50 years ago today.
It's still a hell of a read.....



"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to thestarry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water fiats 'doating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz......."


you gotta read the whole thing. it's all over online.