Inner Moonlight
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you let lose the madness
of your inner moonlight
you and Jack
suckling life’s sweet underbelly
quaking
in the nocturnal neon zoo
both of you
and Neal
groin deep in human wallow
swilling full the brain-drug flesh festival
spewing forth
to fill all fertile ears
with the siren song of sacred dissatisfaction
your fingers burned
from dancing with the fire-whores
of truth
angst
and indignation
you put your queer shoulder to the wheel
and rolled out the new truth
crushing apathy
to run down ignorance
you torched the darkness
with a blinding light
igniting bohemia
in a rolling demon’s fire
illuminating the night
while you danced
with every devil you could find
howling mad
and mind expanded
you ranted
raved
you flamed
a combusting carnal fireball
roaring
hormoned-hungry
for all of life’s deliciousness
ferocious appetite
lusting
longing to consume
every forbidden morsel and crumb
to gorge upon
life’s smorgasborgadelic mindfeast
in gluttonness conspiracy
with Neal
Jack
Tim
and Ken
gut full of insight
kindled by the new freedom
it was flashpoint
each blaze burned so brightly
madder men the world will not soon see
but one by one
each burned out
now a flicker
in the eyes of angles
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rob kistner © 2008
photo above is Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997)