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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked (line 1)
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene...
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural...
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated (line 5)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked (line 1)
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