Sunday, March 27, 2011

Allen Ginsberg - Howl part II

As i promised i show you second part of Ginsberg's poem, named Howl. This part is even more great than first one. I cant stop to read vers by vers, and once again. Sweet 60's :)

Allen Ginsberg - Howl II

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgement! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovas! Moloch whose factories dream and choke in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!

Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!

Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisable suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstacies! gone down the American river!

Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years' animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!

Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!

28 comments:

  1. Robot Apartments! Hahahaha

    What the hell did I just read?

    Followed!

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  2. http://tinypaste.com/c8252
    cool :)

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  3. Moloch whose part two was just as good if not better then the first.

    Moloch who needs to keep up the good work, because I cant wait to read the rest.

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  4. i haven't even finished the first part. :(

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  5. Ginsberg is truly up the with baudelair and blake!

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  6. Ahahah, pretty good article man, keep it up ;D

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  7. ...
    Am I missing something? Coherence maybe? I do not see any connection between the words :(
    Maybe because I am not english...

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  8. haha nice, thanks for sharing!

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  9. @elexerdelex makes sense to me

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  10. What am i reading!? What's 'Moloch' anyways?

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  11. I can't wait for part 3 man keep up the good work

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  12. I'm a little confused so I'm going to find the first part.
    add my bro, he is a new blogger yo
    http://megaawesomesuper.blogspot.com/

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  13. Thanks for sharing, lookingforward to the next part.

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  14. That's a good piece of poetry right there

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  15. classic, one of my country's best poets.
    +followed

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  16. Totally far out. I really dig Ginsberg.

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  17. LOL what did I just read! I must share this!

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  18. "Robot apartments! invisable suburbs! skeleton treasuries!" Thanks for the post! Good stuff

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  19. :o i must take a little of time for processing this :D

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