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I saw the best minds |
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Of my generation destroyed by madness |
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Starving hysterical naked |
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Dragging themselves |
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Through the negro streets |
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At dawn looking for an angry fix |
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Angelheaded hipsters burning |
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For the ancient heavenly connection |
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To the starry dynamo in the machinery of night |
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Who poverty and tatters and hollow eyed |
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And high sat up smoking in the supernatural |
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Darkness of cold water flats floating |
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Across the tops of cities contemplating jazz |
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Who bared their brains to Heaven |
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Under the El and saw Mohammedan angels |
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Staggering on tenement roofs illuminated |
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Who passed through universities |
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With radiant eyes hallucinating Arkansas |
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And Blake light tragedy among |
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The scholars of money and war |
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Who were expelled from the academies for crazy |
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Publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull |
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Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear |
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Burning their money in wastebaskets |
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And listening to the Terror through the wall |
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Who got busted in their pubic beards returning |
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Through Laredo with a belt |
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Of marijuana for New York |
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Who ate fire in paint hotels or drank |
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Turpentine in Paradise Alley death |
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Or purgatoried their torsos night after night |
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With dreams with drugs |
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With waking nightmares |
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Alcohol and cock and endless balls |
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Incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud |
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And lightning in the mind leaping towards |
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Poles of Canada Paterson |
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Illuminating all the motionless world |
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Of Time between |
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Peyote solidities of halls |
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Backyard green tree cemetery dawns |
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Wine drunkenness over the rooftops rooftops |
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Storefront boroughs of teahead joyride |
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Neon blinking traffic light |
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Sun and moon and tree vibrations |
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In the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn |
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Ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind |
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Who chained themselves to subways |
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For the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx |
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On benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children |
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Brought them down shuddering mouth wracked |
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And battered bleak of brain all drained |
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Of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo |
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Who sank all night in submarine light |
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Of Bickford's floated out and sat through |
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The stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi's |
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Listening to the crack of doom |
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On the hydrogen jukebox |
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Who talked continuously seventy hours |
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From park to pad to bar to Bellevue |
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To museum to the Brooklyn Bridge |
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A lost batallion of platonic |
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Conversationalists jumping |
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Down the stoops off fire escapes |
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Off windowsills off Empire State out of the moon |
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Yacketayakking screaming vomiting |
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Whispering facts and memories and anecdotes |
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And eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals |
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And jails and wars |
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Whose intellects disgorged in total recall |
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For seven days and nights with brilliant eyes |
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Meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement |
| [03:56.94] |
Who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey |
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Leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards |
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Of Atlantic City Hall |
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Suffering Eastern sweats |
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And Tangerian bone grindings |
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And migraines of China under |
| [04:12.25] |
Junk withdrawal in Newark's bleak furnished room |
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Who wandered around and around |
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At midnight in the railway yard |
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Wondering where to go |
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And went leaving no broken hearts |
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Who lit cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars |
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Racketing through snow toward lonesome |
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Farms in grandfather night |
