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.
moloch, the heavy judger of men
moloch, the incomprehensible prison
moloch, the soulless jail
congress of sorrows
moloch whose buildings are judgment 
moloch, the vast stone of war
moloch, the stunned governments
moloch whose mind is pure machinery
moloch whose blood is running money 
moloch whose fingers are ten armies
moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo
moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb
moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows
moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog
moloch whose antennae crown the cities
moloch whose love is endless oil and stone
moloch whose soul is electricity and banks
moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius
moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen
moloch 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.