What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their bains and imagination ?
Moloch ! Solitude ! Filth ! Ugliness ! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars ! Children screaming under the stairways ! Boys sobbing in armies ! Old men weeping in the park !
Moloch ! Moloch ! Nightmare of Moloch ! Moloch the loveless ! Mental Moloch ! Moloch the heavy judger of men !
Moloch the incomprehensible prison ! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows ! Moloch whose buildings are judgement ! Moloch the vast stone of war ! Moloch the stunned governments !
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 !
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows ! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovas ! Moloch whose factories dream and choke in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities !
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 !
Moloch in whom I sit lonely ! Moloch in whom I dream angels ! Crazy in Moloch ! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch !
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 !
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments ! invisable suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations ! invincible madhouses ! granite cocks ! monstrous bombs !
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven ! Pavements, trees, radios, tons ! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us !
Visions ! omens ! hallucinations ! miracles ! ecstacies ! 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 !
Real holy laughter in the river ! 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 !