His best known work begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness."
The speaker of one poem by this author asks "How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime" before telling the subject "you were never no locomotive." One of his poems asks a "lonely old grubber" his thoughts of America after watching Charon's boat descend into the "black waters of Lethe." This author of the "Sunflower Sutra" addressed a person who had thrown "potato salad" at some "Dadaism lecturers" in a poem which repeats "Moloch" in the second section. His best known work begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." For 10 points, name this Beat poet of "A Supermarket in California" and "Howl."
The speaker of one poem by this author asks "How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime" before telling the subject "you were never no locomotive."
Allen Ginsberg