MOLOCH, i think we're all starting to figure you out

[mkbnett]

HOWL
for
Carl Solomon

I
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 the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high

Comments

[analkant]

the thing with howl
is it's all description
and no action
no
"everyone died so therefore ____"
just empty description
but it is nice at the right moment
and the thing is
i need more Romance in my life right now
fuck i oughta go reread the stuff i loved ten years ago
i bet i would hate its lack of reality!
gross!
fuck reality
why does everyone have a hardon for it again?
i forget
anyway
the last part, the part you wrote, is the best
i oughta buy local more often

[godchildren]

Hi, I was trolling LJ looking for past classmates and I found you. We went to elementary, middle, and high school together. I don't entirely remember who you are but I figured I'd comment anyway.

Ginsberg is incredible. There is a really lovely book of his work illustrated by Eric Drooker called "Illuminated Poems."

-Marcia

[mkbnett]

when i posted this, i was feeling the confusion of the mind battling/working poorly with the emotions/soul, instead of working harmoniously for health (my body was chill though, haha, just laying down & feeling pretty bodily-relaxed, too, except for my neck - still, god bless yoga, haha). Heh, I was stuck from emotional fears working with a confused mind, which refused to acknowledge the emotional fears as legitimate and instead deciding to play them out, emitting relentless negative projections - negative mental images of the future, which instead of acknowledging that yes, even those things could happen, i insanely and unconsciously attempted to battle against those negative projections using logical reasons to try to "prove" that those things could never happen (impossible to prove) or prove that they could be taken care of swiftly and easily (which is pointless, because these situations are projections and not my present reality - so good job, I won an imaginary argument against my fears - good job 'Matt! heh.. but then the fears

[erinnonentity]

I memorized a portion of this for 10th grade honors' english & recited it and the whole class thought I was insane. obviously, I was just ahead of my times!

[mkbnett]

yeah, you were, i suppose

imagine how ginsberg and all his friends felt! heh, probably a lot like that, actually, heh

at the time (high school), i vaguely recall that i thought that these writings were a romantic fictional woesome piece for you, and not a reflection that had any true meaningful connection to your experience. really, i just couldn't make any connection between my experience and these works, and being Christian at the time, found it hard to believe that any other perception of reality other than those i had contemplated or saw links between, could be meaningful to anyone, heh