Allen Ginsberg - America

from Howl and other poems

[@RatatRatR]

This is so much better than the live recording where everyone's cracking up like it's a standup routine.

[@Jacob-df5hr]

I prefer this one as well but there is humor in the poem

[@RatatRatR]

I suppose so. It just really caught me off guard when I heard that other recording.

[@ComanderCool909]

I quite enjoy the way he says "Im addressing you..." and then addresses the audience directly: "Are you going to allow your emotional life to be dictated by Time magazine?" and they all laugh, oblivious, just watching everything like its a tv show, laughing when they think they should. There's no pause for thought, only an insatiable desire to fit in.

[@sadiesmith1489]

It is an edited version. It isn't the complete poem

[@frankiebluethgen4291]

came here mainly to see if the sample at the start of came out swinging was actually ginsberg. Ended up appreciating this poem as much as the record it inspired. Its sad so much of what he touched on is still relevant almost 70 years later.

[@sadiesmith1489]

Bad news. Read the poem this is a manipulation of the original work with several key lines removed. Still an amazing poem that brings me to tears. Just make sure you get the full poem! This is an abbreviated reading skillfully manipulated to leave out some very key lines.

[@joycejames8461]

This will always be relevant. Thanks for making it available.

[@Mandroid200]

America, when will you be angelic?

[@excelsior999]

Never. "If humans were angels no government would be necessary." - James Madison

[@monjelo]

Still relevant.

[@jansonbriggs3250]

I’m not crying bro. You’re crying. America you broke my heart....

[@karak6827]

Run while you can. 😢

[@YhuMum]

I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations

[@minimonkey252]

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

[@endtimessupportgroup5685]

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[@seaghan6412]

@@endtimessupportgroup5685 copying a poem is not poetry, you have essentially done a cover of a poem. congrats.

[@endtimessupportgroup5685]

@@seaghan6412 you haven't heard the original. If you compared them you'd see they're nothing alike. Dont comment on art without educating yrself on post modernism. That's one way to avoid being called an idiot.

[@seaghan6412]

@@endtimessupportgroup5685 Your comment is on a video of Ginsbergs America you utter plonker. What a fantastic way to show your hubris *clap clap*

[@endtimessupportgroup5685]

@@seaghan6412 making up words like "plonker" doesnt change the fact that the poem went right over yr head

[@esmeraldo7887]

still the one!

[@alexroselle]

America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies

[@bigtimepeace]

We all should!

[@timnicktion9744]

im near sighted and psychopathic anyway

[@naialain9731]

THREW ALL MY SHIT INTO MY PARENTS BASEMENT

[@jamesdraco09]

Moved*

[@drewweng]

Your machinery is too much for me....legit.

[@luismanuel2612]

The greatest American poet since Whitman ...

[@excelsior999]

You can't be serious.

[@hasandurak7114]

Ezra pound

[@venividi2940]

@@excelsior999 why wouldn't he be? it's true af

[@thegrandlevel313]

Also we don’t have precision parts factories anymore.

[@Jacob-df5hr]

Everybody must've been a spy

[@timnicktion9744]

why are your libraries full of tears?

[@YouCantHandleTheJug]

2024

[@alexpapkok]

why oh why has nobody done a mash up of this & Childish Gambino yet... if I had the skills i would...

[@martinsehnoutka1078]

Actually writing a thesis comparing this, Langston Hughes and Childish Gambino rn :) Enjoying it deeply!

[@_Pauper_]

@@martinsehnoutka1078 that sounds great!!!

[@_Pauper_]

Yes!

[@zorkwhouse8125]

check out the mash up of this with Tom Waits' "Closing Time." If someone can beat that, I tip my hat to them. :-)

[@thegrandlevel313]

Still so relevant. The one catholic president we had after this was published was murdered...

[@raygedd9693]

Joe Biden is also Catholic

[@fellowcitizen]

3:48 1959 or 2018?

[@savethezombies]

The commies want to take your Hamburgers!

[@antichrist.superstar]

Or 2020??

[@thegrandlevel313]

Howl was written 54-55. Published 56. Banned all over immediately.

[@_Pauper_]

@@antichrist.superstar or 2023🥺

[@sadiesmith1489]

This is not the poem. The references to Christianity have been removed and the meaning changed. This should be flagged. When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid. My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble. You should have seen me reading Marx. My psychoanalyst thinks I’m perfectly right. I won’t say the Lord’s Prayer. I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations. America I still haven’t told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over from Russia. I’m addressing you.

[@jrae69jm]

Even Flow by Pearl Jam #PeaceAndLove #Always #Rats #CC

[@jrae69jm]

Believe by Eminem #RevivalLPRiver by Eminem feat. Ed Sheehan #Honesty #Empowerment #Exposure Peace Eddie #RIP #ChrisCornellthank you too. God bless you 🙏

[@sadiesmith1489]

This content needs to be removed it is an edited and inaccurate representation of the artists work. It is skillfully manipulated from an older recording

[@oliverwilson5957]

This makes me so angry Here I was thinking this was the original having no idea it was edited

[@ginahanlon1815]

Someone wanted to follow this wath Cat Stevens and I disagreed. Marrely.copy and. Ginsberg gaced the Committee of Unamerican.Activities with his.