THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

And down there’s Hollywood,

the starry world below

— expressing nakedness —

that craving, that glory

that applause — leisure, mind,

appetite for dreams, bodies,

travels: appetite for the real created by the mind

and kissed in coitus —

that craving, that melting!

Not even the human

imagination satisfies

the endless emptiness of the soul.

Ginsberg, “Over Kansas” (60-73) in Ginsberg/Collected