Ich sah die besten Köpfe meiner Generation zerstört vom Wahnsinn, hungrig hysterisch nackt, // wie sie im Morgengrauen sich durch die Negerstraßen schleppten auf der Suche nach einer wütenden SpritzeAllen Ginsberg
Translation (German)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.Allen Ginsberg
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"Ich sah die besten Köpfe meiner Generation zerstört vom Wahnsinn, hungrig hysterisch nackt, // wie sie im Morgengrauen sich durch die Negerstraßen schleppten auf der Suche nach einer wütenden Spritze"
— Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
1926 – 1997
US-amerikanischer Dichter
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