Fragments from Howl – Meri Karako
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river!
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years’ animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!
(extract from the poem ‘Howl‘ by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright © Allen Ginsberg, 1956, 1961, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited)