Howl-Allen Ginsberg

[ti:Howl] [ar:Allen Ginsberg] [00:00.00] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Howl - Allen Ginsberg [00:07.92]I saw the best minds [00:09.05]Of my generation destroyed by madness [00:13.41] [00:14.39]Starving hysterical naked [00:17.52] [00:19.53]Dragging themselves [00:20.57]Through the negro streets [00:21.85]At dawn looking for an angry fix [00:24.53] [00:25.93]Angelheaded hipsters burning [00:28.88]For the ancient heavenly connection [00:31.17]To the starry dynamo in the machinery of night [00:34.38] [00:36.27]Who poverty and tatters and hollow eyed [00:38.91]And high sat up smoking in the supernatural [00:42.45]Darkness of cold water flats floating [00:44.88]Across the tops of cities contemplating jazz [00:48.07] [00:50.45]Who bared their brains to Heaven [00:52.29]Under the El and saw Mohammedan angels [00:55.25]Staggering on tenement roofs illuminated [00:58.11] [00:59.74]Who passed through universities [01:01.36]With radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas [01:05.38] [01:06.16]And Blake light tragedy among [01:08.73]The scholars of money and war [01:11.15] [01:13.42]Who were expelled from the academies for crazy [01:16.44] [01:17.19]Publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull [01:21.54] [01:23.56]Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear [01:26.48] [01:27.11]Burning their money in wastebaskets [01:29.19]And listening to the Terror through the wall [01:31.34] [01:32.88]Who got busted in their pubic beards returning [01:35.86]Through Laredo with a belt [01:37.32]Of m*******a for New York [01:38.93] [01:40.73]Who ate fire in paint hotels or drank [01:44.22]Turpentine in Paradise Alley death [01:46.80] [01:47.77]Or purgatoried their torsos night after night [01:50.68] [01:51.90]With dreams with drugs [01:53.56]With waking nightmares [01:55.24]Alcohol and cock and endless balls [01:58.15] [01:59.01]Incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud [02:02.32]And lightning in the mind leaping towards [02:05.43]Poles of Canada Paterson [02:07.47] [02:08.09]Illuminating all the motionless world [02:10.53]Of Time between [02:11.68] [02:13.04]Peyote solidities of halls [02:14.97] [02:15.72]Backyard green tree cemetery dawns [02:18.25] [02:18.95]Wine drunkenness over the rooftops rooftops [02:22.14] [02:23.19]Storefront boroughs of teahead joyride [02:26.19]Neon blinking traffic light [02:28.25] [02:28.98]Sun and moon and tree vibrations [02:31.08]In the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn [02:34.02]Ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind [02:37.61] [02:40.48]Who chained themselves to subways [02:42.57]For the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx [02:45.84]On benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children [02:49.44]Brought them down shuddering mouth wracked [02:52.16]And battered bleak of brain all drained [02:54.45]Of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo [02:57.40] [02:59.43]Who sank all night in submarine light [03:01.69]Of Bickford's floated out and sat through [03:05.08]The stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi's [03:08.16] [03:09.15]Listening to the crack of doom [03:11.06]On the hydrogen jukebox [03:12.71] [03:14.23]Who talked continuously seventy hours [03:16.93]From park to pad to bar to Bellevue [03:19.63]To museum to the Brooklyn Bridge [03:20.99] [03:21.99]A lost batallion of platonic [03:24.24]Conversationalists jumping [03:26.76]Down the stoops off fire escapes [03:29.61]Off windowsills off Empire State out of the moon [03:33.21] [03:34.45]Yacketayakking screaming vomiting [03:36.95] [03:37.56]Whispering facts and memories and anecdotes [03:40.58]And eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals [03:43.38]And jails and wars [03:44.97] [03:46.07]Whose intellects disgorged in total recall [03:48.98] [03:49.64]For seven days and nights with brilliant eyes [03:52.09] [03:52.74]Meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement [03:55.79] [03:56.94]Who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey [04:00.12]Leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards [04:03.02]Of Atlantic City Hall [04:04.37] [04:05.75]Suffering Eastern sweats [04:07.55]And Tangerian bone grindings [04:09.29] [04:10.07]And migraines of China under [04:12.25]Junk withdrawal in Newark's bleak furnished room [04:15.08] [04:16.57]Who wandered around and around [04:18.12]At midnight in the railway yard [04:20.13]Wondering where to go [04:21.19] [04:21.93]And went leaving no broken hearts [04:23.82] [04:25.18]Who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars [04:28.76]Racketing through snow toward lonesome [04:31.04]Farms in grandfather night