HOWL is, like, this Beat masterpiece but it would give me a headache to read all at once.
But as a service to you, I am picking out one line each for a few of my SC friends. (Order of appearance is as in poem and arbitrary) If I forgot anybody, ill commission you.
The poem starts with the line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked
You try. (Howl Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/howl-parts-i-ii)
------------------------------------------->>>>>>>>> ANGEE: who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo
with a belt of marijuana for New York
WALTZ: Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and
cock and endless balls
PRIMAL: who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists,
and screamed with joy
JIM: 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
CEST: 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
BLANC: who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave
up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought
they were growing old and cried
If I forgot you, I’ll commission you as you like.
OH and there's DEADPAN, an afterthought, but he may not appreciate it ;P :
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