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HOWL Against Censorship
PACIFICA.org

you can download mp3 file of ginsberg reading of the howl
http://www.pacifica.org/program-guide/op,segment-page/station_id,4/segme...

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 machin-
ery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of