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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the Redbull fridge at midnight looking for an angry fix,

nodejs hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to DynamoDB in the machinery of the cloud,

who runway and hungry and hollow-eyed and high sat up staring at the supernatural luminescence of terminal illness floating across the tops of Macbooks contemplating scale,

who bared their brains to Apple under Jobs and saw cross-compiled apps staggering on tenant servers illuminated,

who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating funding and Techcrunch tragedy among the scholars of more,

who fled from the academies to publish obscene odes to Mammon in the windows of the user's skull,

who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall...




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