I I saw the best minds of my generation go to waste I saw the worst minds obsess over awful taste I walked a steady path and staggered through some mud I soared through skies so bright, my eyes were useless studs
II You viewed the same madness that spewed from my pen You walked the path of enlightenment and gorgeous Zen You mastered what all the useless fools never could You comprehended what they never understood
III We rise, only as one, but the stragglers keep us down We never worry much, because a king is just a crown We march to the drum of freedom, with paper on our tongues We are the 90’s generation, the wise among the young
In my English Counterculture Class, we were assigned to write a prompt according to Allen Ginsberg's poem: HOWL