&*^!%# 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...