Comments on: Howl for a new generation (with apologies to Allen Ginsberg) http://www.groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/ groundviews is an award winning Sri Lankan citizen journalism initiative Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Samanthi http://www.groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/#comment-3175 Samanthi Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:40:42 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=953#comment-3175 Hello Sam, you are absolutely right about the best minds of our generation. I wasn't necessarily writing about the best minds, just "the minds of my generation" and our collective silence and pain. Hello Sam, you are absolutely right about the best minds of our generation.
I wasn’t necessarily writing about the best minds, just “the minds of my generation” and our collective silence and pain.

]]> By: sam http://www.groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/#comment-3173 sam Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:48:32 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=953#comment-3173 In Ginsberg's original Howl, he "saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix". In Sri Lanka, the Government's clensing of rebellion of the early 70s and late 80s, and the desire by the LTTE to remove Tamil opposition, also "saw the best minds" destroyed. If they were still here, Sri Lanka would be a different place. Today, the best minds of my generation have already left the island or are planning to, or they are hiding, or they are attending meetings or writing reports, or they have given up and are selling lingerie and swimsuits for global consumption... searching for a different kind of "angry fix". In Ginsberg’s original Howl, he “saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix”.

In Sri Lanka, the Government’s clensing of rebellion of the early 70s and late 80s, and the desire by the LTTE to remove Tamil opposition, also “saw the best minds” destroyed. If they were still here, Sri Lanka would be a different place.

Today, the best minds of my generation have already left the island or are planning to, or they are hiding, or they are attending meetings or writing reports, or they have given up and are selling lingerie and swimsuits for global consumption… searching for a different kind of “angry fix”.

]]> By: Sena http://www.groundviews.org/2008/08/03/howl-for-a-new-generation-with-apologies-to-allen-ginsberg/#comment-3164 Sena Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:17:26 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=953#comment-3164 Samanthi, Thanks for this poem. Sena Samanthi,

Thanks for this poem.

Sena

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