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Meditations On Moloch

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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! 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 smok

Meditations On Moloch Slate Star Codex Abridged MD PDF DOC 14811 words Meditations On Moloch July 30, 2014 Also available as podcast here . I Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch: 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 cr

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