[00:07.92]I saw the best minds
[00:09.05]Of my generation destroyed by madness
[00:14.38]Starving hysterical naked
[00:19.52]Dragging themselves
[00:20.56]Through the negro streets
[00:21.84]At dawn looking for an angry fix
[00:25.93]Angelheaded hipsters burning
[00:28.88]For the ancient heavenly connection
[00:31.17]To the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
[00:36.27]Who poverty and tatters and hollow eyed
[00:38.91]And high sat up smoking in the supernatural
[00:42.45]Darkness of cold water flats floating
[00:44.88]Across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
[00:50.45]Who bared their brains to Heaven
[00:52.29]Under the El and saw Mohammedan angels
[00:55.25]Staggering on tenement roofs illuminated
[00:59.74]Who passed through universities
[01:01.36]With radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas
[01:06.16]And Blake light tragedy among
[01:08.73]The scholars of money and war
[01:13.42]Who were expelled from the academies for crazy
[01:17.19]Publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull
[01:23.56]Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear
[01:27.11]Burning their money in wastebaskets
[01:29.19]And listening to the Terror through the wall
[01:32.88]Who got busted in their pubic beards returning
[01:35.86]Through Laredo with a belt
[01:37.32]Of marijuana for New York
[01:40.73]Who ate fire in paint hotels or drank
[01:44.21]Turpentine in Paradise Alley  death
[01:47.77]Or purgatoried their torsos night after night
[01:51.90]With dreams  with drugs
[01:53.56]With waking nightmares
[01:55.24]Alcohol and cock and endless balls
[01:59.01]Incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud
[02:02.32]And lightning in the mind leaping towards
[02:05.43]Poles of Canada Paterson
[02:08.09]Illuminating all the motionless world
[02:10.53]Of Time between
[02:13.04]Peyote solidities of halls
[02:15.72]Backyard green tree cemetery dawns
[02:18.95]Wine drunkenness over the rooftops   rooftops
[02:23.19]Storefront boroughs of teahead joyride
[02:26.19]Neon blinking traffic light
[02:28.98]Sun and moon and tree vibrations
[02:31.08]In the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn
[02:34.02]Ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind
[02:40.48]Who chained themselves to subways
[02:42.57]For the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx
[02:45.84]On benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children
[02:49.44]Brought them down shuddering mouth wracked
[02:52.16]And battered bleak of brain all drained
[02:54.45]Of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo
[02:59.43]Who sank all night in submarine light
[03:01.69]Of Bickford's floated out and sat through
[03:05.08]The stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi's
[03:09.15]Listening to the crack of doom
[03:11.06]On the hydrogen jukebox
[03:14.23]Who talked continuously seventy hours
[03:16.93]From park to pad to bar to Bellevue
[03:19.63]To museum to the Brooklyn Bridge
[03:21.99]A lost batallion of platonic
[03:24.24]Conversationalists jumping
[03:26.76]Down the stoops off fire escapes
[03:29.61]Off windowsills off Empire State out of the moon
[03:34.45]Yacketayakking screaming vomiting
[03:37.56]Whispering facts and memories and anecdotes
[03:40.58]And eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals
[03:43.38]And jails and wars
[03:46.07]Whose intellects disgorged in total recall
[03:49.64]For seven days and nights with brilliant eyes
[03:52.74]Meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement
[03:56.94]Who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey
[04:00.12]Leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards
[04:03.02]Of Atlantic City Hall
[04:05.75]Suffering Eastern sweats
[04:07.55]And Tangerian bone grindings
[04:10.07]And migraines of China under
[04:12.25]Junk withdrawal in Newark's bleak furnished room
[04:16.57]Who wandered around and around
[04:18.12]At midnight in the railway yard
[04:20.13]Wondering where to go
[04:21.93]And went  leaving no broken hearts
[04:25.17]Who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars
[04:28.75]Racketing through snow toward lonesome
[04:31.03]Farms in grandfather night