Beat Poet Beat-Down!

It's the 50th anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," and James Bowman lays on the hurt here.

But what...[Ginsberg]...really means by the child-devouring monster [Moloch] is the ordinary responsibilities of adult life, from which he, like his successors in the pursuit of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, remained in headlong flight all his life.

Now that's poetry.