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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! Chil-
          dren screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old 
          men weeping in the parks!
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Mo-
          loch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jail-
          house and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judg-
          ment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned govern-
          ments!
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 skyscrap-
          ers 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 ec-
          stasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light stream-
          ing out of the sky!
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! 
          blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad-
          houses! 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 sui-
          cides! 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!