05 June, 2006

&*^!%# in the a$$ by saintly motorcyclists"

Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. You can read the poem - obscenity and all - here. Alternatively, one can Ginsberg himself read it over at archive.org. Howl is tucked away in the recording and begins at 40:15.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...

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