Howl

Allen Ginsberg "The greatest poet of the Beat movement and one of the most renowned American writers of the 20th century" ifølge AllMusic, er også mannen bak diktet Howl, et dikt jeg har fått inntrykk av at en bør ha et visst kjennskap til. Derfor, folkeopplysning!

  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 lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston
     seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the
     brilliant Spaniard to converse about America
     and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship
     to Africa,

Fortsetter her. Og her.