Howl by Allen Ginsberg
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg
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Posting the whole of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, one line every three hours. Inspired by @HowlTweeter which ran on Twitter from 2010 to 2023. Dedicated to Carl Solomon. A bot by Hex (@hex.ooo)
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
October 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
October 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
October 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I
October 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
For Carl Solomon
October 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Howl
October 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
San Francisco, 1955-56
October 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
October 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
O skinny legions run outside O starry spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is here O victory forget your underwear we’re free
October 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma by our own souls’ airplanes roaring over the roof they’ve come to drop angelic bombs the hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets the United States that coughs all night and won’t let us sleep
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where there are twenty-five-thousand mad comrades all together singing the final stanzas of the Internationale
October 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you will split the heavens of Long Island and resurrect your living human Jesus from the superhuman tomb
October 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you accuse your doctors of insanity and plot the Hebrew socialist revolution against the fascist national Golgotha
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where fifty more shocks will never return your soul to its body again from its pilgrimage to a cross in the void
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you bang on the catatonic piano the soul is innocent and immortal it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse
October 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you’re losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss
October 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you pun on the bodies of your nurses the harpies of the Bronx
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you drink the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where the faculties of the skull no longer admit the worms of the senses
October 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I’m with you in Rockland
where your condition has become serious and is reported on the radio
October 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you laugh at this invisible humor
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you’ve murdered your twelve secretaries
October 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I’m with you in Rockland
where you imitate the shade of my mother
October 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM