Liam Almond writes, “I am a Junior Film Production major at Endicott College, with an interest in poetry.”

Liam Almond

MY Howl

*a reaction to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl”

I saw my generation
through the screen of a computer.
Eager for connection
lacking socially,
Who– overrun with algorithms,
camera flashes that play God

Who bowed their head in narrow rooms
with glass ceilings
blinding themselves to save face,

Who listen to the words of the wise endlessly
in a world they barely even reside…
Who speak words of future promise
to the ears of the deaf

The generation that wanted to press play
but was forced to play by decree.

— Liam Almond

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