what sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
moloch
solitude, filth, ugliness.
unobtainable dollars
children screaming under the stairways 
sobbing in armies, weeping in the parks
moloch, moloch, nightmare of moloch
moloch the loveless
mental moloch.
the heavy judger of men
the incomprehensible prison
congress of sorrows
whose buildings are judgment 
the vast stone of war
moloch, the stunned governments
whose mind is pure machinery
whose blood is running money 
whose fingers are ten armies
whose breast is a cannibal dynamo
whose ear is a smoking tomb
whose eyes are a thousand blind windows
whose factories dream and croak in the fog
whose antennae crown the cities
whose love is endless oil and stone
whose soul is electricity and banks
whose poverty is the specter of genius
whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen
whose name is the mind
moloch in whom I sit lonely
moloch in whom I dream angels
crazy in moloch.
lacklove and manless in moloch
moloch who entered my soul
conscious without a body
frightened out of my natural ecstasy
moloch whom I abandon
wake up in moloch
moloch! moloch! 
robot apartments
invisible suburbs, skeleton treasuries, blind capitals
demonic industries
spectral nations, invincible madhouses, sceptred kings
monstrous bombs
they broke their backs lifting moloch to heaven! 
pavements, trees, radios, tons
lifting the city to heaven
visions.. omens.. hallucinations.. miracles.
ecstasies gone down the silicon river
dreams, adorations, illuminations, religions
breakthroughs, over the river 
highs! epiphanies! despairs! 
minds! new loves! mad generation! 
down on the rocks of time
holy laughter in the river
they saw it all
the wild eyes, the holy yells - they bade farewell! 
down to the river, into the street.