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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)

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For Carl Solomon
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Howl
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
San Francisco, 1955-56
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
O skinny legions run outside O starry spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is here O victory forget your underwear we’re free
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where there are twenty-five-thousand mad comrades all together singing the final stanzas of the Internationale
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you accuse your doctors of insanity and plot the Hebrew socialist revolution against the fascist national Golgotha
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you pun on the bodies of your nurses the harpies of the Bronx
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you drink the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where the faculties of the skull no longer admit the worms of the senses
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where your condition has become serious and is reported on the radio
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you laugh at this invisible humor
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you’ve murdered your twelve secretaries
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you imitate the shade of my mother
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m with you in Rockland where you must feel very strange
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Carl Solomon! I’m with you in Rockland where you’re madder than I am
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
III
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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! Real holy laughter in the river!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream Angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death,
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head,
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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus
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