Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Mad_Son
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So I've been reading poetry recently because I read a good poem and wondered if there are other good ones out there. I let Google tell me the best poems of all time and I've been working down the list. There are a few I like, some that are fine, and plenty that are meh... but I just read Howl by Allen Ginsberg, and clearly @puppylove_sugarsteel was his muse because some of the stuff in there you will only find on this board. I encourage you all to become more sophisticated and to give this a gander.
An exerpt:
"who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off the roof waving genitals and manuscripts,
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,
who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love,
who balled in the morning in the evenings in rosegardens and the grass of public parks and cemeteries scattering their semen freely to whomever come who may,
who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob behind a partition in a Turkish Bath when the blond & naked angel came to pierce them with a sword,
who lost their loveboys to the three old shrews of fate the one eyed shrew of the heterosexual dollar the one eyed shrew that winks out of the womb and the one eyed shrew that does nothing but sit on her ass and snip the intellectual golden threads of the craftsman’s loom,
who copulated ecstatic and insatiate with a bottle of beer a sweetheart a package of cigarettes a candle and fell off the bed, and continued along the floor and down the hall and ended fainting on the wall with a vision of ultimate cunt and come eluding the last gyzym of consciousness,
who sweetened the snatches of a million girls trembling in the sunset, and were red eyed in the morning but prepared to sweeten the snatch of the sunrise, flashing buttocks under barns and naked in the lake"
Comments
Ginsburg was gay, Jewish, beat-nick Pup.
You lost me at poetry.