“Critic” – A Rework of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”

A rework of Allen Ginsberg’s 2^nd Stanza of “Howl”

Critic
For The Composite Vintner of Honesty

II

What journal of ink and paper bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

Critics! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Criticisms and unobtainable dollars! Vintners screaming under the winepress! Boys sobbing in cellars! Old men weeping in the vineyards!

Critics! Critics! Nightmare of Critics! Critics the loveless! Mental Critics! Critics the heavy judger of men!

Critics the incomprehensible prison! Critics the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Critics whose ratings are judgement! Critics the vast cults of lore! Critics the stunned readership!

Critics whose mind is pure machinery! Critics whose word is pushing money! Critics whose words are ten armies! Critics whose palate is a cannibal dynamo! Critics whose ear is a deaf drum!

Critics whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Critics whose pronouncements stand in the long streets like endless tormentors! Critics whose publications scheme and choke in the fog! Critics whose smokestacks and antennae crown the vineyards!

Critics whose love is endless alcohol and oak! Critics whose soul is faux chateau! Critics whose poverty is the spectator of genius! Critics whose fate is a cloud of tech consumption! Critics whose name is the Star!

Critics in whom I sit lonely! Critics in whom I dream angels! Crazy in Critics! Defiled in Critics! Ignored and scoreless in Critics!

Critics who entered my soul early! Critics in whom I am a thoughtful without a voice! Critics who robbed me of my natural opinion! Critics whom I abandon! Wake up to Critics! Light streaming out of the sky!

Critics! Critics! Robot enthusiasts! invisible alliances! skeleton motives! blind understandings! demonic industries! spectral appellations! invincible announcements! granite publications! monstrous fruit bombs!

They broke their backs lifting Critics to Heaven! Barrels, lees, presses, thieves! lifting the scores to Merchants which exists and are nothing without them!

Visions! nuances! terroirists! subtleties! ecstasies! gone down the Russian river!

Dreams! adorations! adulations! Advocacies, the verbal wars of subjection!

Breakthroughs! over the river! Subjecting in journalism! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years’ reporting vintage suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!

Real conversation 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!