Howl

by Allen Ginsberg · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

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…

#beat generation #drug addiction #madness #social critique #spiritual yearning #urban alienation

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