Patti Smith reads Footnote To Howl by Allen Ginsberg

Foot note to Howl. By Allen Ginsberg

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! 

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! 

The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! 

The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand 

and asshole holy! 

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is 

holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an 

angel! 

The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is 

holy as you my soul are holy! 

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is 

holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy! 

Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy 

Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cas- 

sady holy the unknown buggered and suffering 

beggars holy the hideous human angels! 

Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks 

of the grandfathers of Kansas! 

Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop 

apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana 

hipsters peace & junk & drums! 

Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy 

the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the 

mysterious rivers of tears under the streets! 

Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the 

middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebell- 

ion! Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles! 

Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria & 

Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow 

Holy Istanbul! 

Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the 

clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy 

the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! 

Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the 

locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucina- 

tions holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the 

abyss! 

Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! 

bodies! suffering! magnanimity! 

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent 

kindness of the soul! 

Berkeley 1955