II

What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains
    and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children
    screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the
    parks!
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 judgment! 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 Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in
    the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks 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! invisible 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! 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!
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!

30 Sep 2015

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