Allen Ginsberg is talking about the "secret hero of these poems" N.C., cocksman and Adonis of Denver, his mother, Carl, Moloch, and Carl Soloman. I am not sure what time period it was written in but the setting was in many different places, and towards the end, the American west. It is a really dark poem, it seems to discuss the darkness of life, especially of Moloch. Until the end when it talks of Carl Soloman and their love.