I saw the best minds of my generation in chat rooms with the worst minds of my generation destroyed by bad Yelp reviews and a troll on Angies list
after failed ebay auction bids dragging themselves through google adwords looking for SEO optimization while stirring to Kelly Clarkson on Itunes,
Message t shirt donning hipsters burning for the extra cash to afford optimized DSL connections and emoticon responses that stave off acronym exhaustion. Sat up chewing nicotine gum in the LCD monitors earthy glow floating over contemplating John Travolta’s latest disgruntled masseuse. Sober on Setraline who bared their brains to Yahoo after passing the CAPTCHA under a clever seeming screenname and saw Mohammedan menaces make the TSA frisk them at LAX.Who passed through University of Pheonix, that wasn’t even in Arizona, and with more debt
and feeling like suckers hallucinating all inclusive Sandals resorts and Blake’s tragic Piers Morgan interview.among the scholars of the Huffington post who weren’t compensated according to the drudge report for crazy partisan pieces who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear where there once firm buns dented by ergonomic computer chairs seats
Wasting their money on soda makers at Amazon dot com and listening in Terror through headphones to Youtube's gone viral while scanning TMZ, busted downloading movies
returning through Laredo with a laptop full of bootleg Lady Gaga
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, al-cohol and cyber cock and endless balls,endless texts, endless obsolescence, endless transient connections, widgets, and clickable links
incomparable websites of shuddering stillness
lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of....
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Endless, oh, yea, we are the cursed. Brilliant parody, Ferns, and if it weren't so true, so terribly true, it would be a howl.
Jmac: I wish Ginsburg could PM me and tell me he liked it. But, that's not going to happen. Your appreciation will have to do ;)
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Me too.
heehaw.
I saw Ya.
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Rita etc.,
I be Gone.
I read & go.
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I heard a Howl.
It's Universal.
It's Howl Bah.
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No HOWL loud?
Howl Head Off.
Ya No Fool, no.
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King Gong do Bong.
Folk Act So Dopey.
editor loves dong.
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huh? Dong is `Cash.
Dong is Vietnamese.
Ya Rip-Van-Dimple.
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this is just a ease test.
i had to re-sign in`gin.
no ask Mr. sugar-man.
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He needs bed-rest?
He Loves Kerry L.?
He wear a `Diaper?
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Buy Kerry`Kotex?
He blow drip-noses?
He HOWLs ` Awry. . .
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I've been with locos.
Local are good loco.
Hi. No be a Fool, ay.
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Howl at Moon. okay.
Howl at Salamander.
Have one Happy Life.
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huh
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I jest popping off`gin.
No sip mistress wine?
Ya be very how-funs.
Jlsathre: Thank you . Hope for us? Nope.
Rita: wow on your comment. So glad you liked. I could go on and on cause there just is so much fodder every day. xo
Art: Did you call me rip van dimple? OOoh. Good to see you and the gin.
JaimeJaime: Wouldn't that be swell. What a generous and darling comment. You are the best.
Rated for parallels are everywhere.
~R~
Chicago: I will take that as a cue to continue. Thank you. I'd settle for one facebook like on this post for now. Keep your eye out for a part 2 in the near future if some e-book impresario doesn't contact me first.
Mical: I know I've done something right when you come by. Thanks.
Seer: Yes, parallels are everywhere. Thanks.
InvertedI: It's a parod of Howl for the next generation or the following generations after Allan Ginsburg's more dramatic take. Eyespye! I plan to work Kraft Cocktails and mixolgists in for any next installment. Ginsburg's is much longer so lots of room for more. Artisinal bread and artisinal and organic anything should show up too. Don't think I forgot the magic day that occurs in two days.
Thanks dearheart.
Oh to be able to go back and do do overs.
You've made such a perfect parody ?satire ? tribute? to the original Ginsburg! Bravo ! ( or is it Brava! these days among the intelligentsia as a sly referent to actually knowing (Italian? - some form of pigeon Latin anyway.)
A Hippy/Beatnick "chick" I was seeing dragged me along to a Ginsburg poetry reading at Ohio State in '68 or '69
She was really, really excited about meeting him and hearing him in person. Ok, I went along. BUTT-
As a product of my cultural upbringing (see
http://open.salon.com/blog/token/2012/07/13/on_the_appreciation_of_subtle_cultural_differences )
what I saw was a skinny guy who looked a lot like Phineas Freak ( Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) spouting nonsense.
I quite frankly dozed through it.
My friend was enthralled, and wanted to discuss it with me at length afterward, and when I demonstrated that I really hadn't been paying attention, my anticipated over night activities with the young lady evaporated before my eyes.
I went home alone
THAT's what I recall about the night I saw Ginsburg.
Funny thing is, over the years I've come to understand at least a little of what he must have meant to my friend
Whish i could go back and re listen to that session with my "Older Ears",
Rated.
Token: Looking forward to reading your Ginsburg story. Will comment there when I do . Brava is in vogue, you are right. Thanks, fine fellow. Off I got paste that link to my browser, as the kids say
Scylla! Thank you. ;D
Rita: How cute of you to come back . The B word is always nice. Thanks for your sweet support. I consider you a tough critic so it means more than it would if you just adored everything.
You should join me.
i should've said "in the near future"
so i can understand the next generation!
just saw that. Gawd I hate that word. It reeks of sandals with socks. or sustainedness or sustainabilty or something that sustains but not anything you really own, that is replaced by the newest ISOMETHING.
or MEpod.
Rita: Just googled that word cause I'd never heard of it. Very cool word. Glad you like the craic here.
InvertedI: Thought you'd be hip to Howl. Thanks for returning.
Rita: Yes yes yes. Artisinal will now be the end of me. Suddenly the universe is crawling with artisans. Where the fuck are they being trained? Suddenly, everyone is a damned artisan and my regular bread is for the birds. Me and you would be fast friends in IRL in this imeminegeneration.
I wrote a parody of Howl in 1994 when I was living in Seattle just after an acid trip. The language was a lot more crude in the original version I wrote, but I scrubbed it cleaner, though Ginsberg believed in writing without self-editing to preserve honest expression of hidden uncomfortable truths.
http://open.salon.com/blog/surazeus/2012/07/15/bored_restless_generation_-_parody_of_howl
I love Dan Bern's homage: http://danbern.redacorn.net/lyrics/wasteland.html
Would love this to be an open call. I got tons more pages to contribute . But, there are like a thousand open calls going on nowaday. Good to see you, as per.
Here is the link to a review of HOWL!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049402/
I never got Ginsberg until I saw this film. The poem is also a legal landmark as well as a literary one. Somehow I think you will like that.
Kate: The legal aspect does sound very intriguing. Thanks.
I even sent this link to my brother back East and I never do that : )
I think you are a genius, pulling this off. I am so impressed.
Tink: you reminded me that I must work the word "awesome' into the next installment. Thanks.