They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!

Link to The Decision

 

"The sexual revolution has done a good job of opening up people's minds. On the other hand, there's been an imposition of literary censorship on radio and television, which is the main marketplace of ideas. This is because of Jesse Helms's law, signed in 1988 by Reagan. This immediately kept almost all of my poetry out of commission between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M."
(http://www.bookwire.com/hmr/review/moore.html)

To the extent that there is government failure and media plastic, there's a failure of reality on many subjects -- particularly sex, which is not being dealt with properly, and violence. There is no beautiful sex on television, but there is lots of ugly violence. Government is manipulative and full of hypocrites who're avoiding the real issues of ecology, overpopulation, underclass suffering, medical bankruptcy, homelessness, malnutrition, race divisions, the issue of drugs. With all the demagoguery (from Bill Clinton and particularly Janet Reno) and confusion, poetry can stand out as the one beacon of sanity: a beacon of individual clarity, and lucidity in every direction -- whether on the Internet or in coffee houses or university forums or classrooms. Poetry, along with its old companion, music, becomes one means of communication that is not controlled by the establishment.
(Ginsberg http://pce.net/elf/archives/v6n2019a.htm)