Jack Kerouac

Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend5 years ago - other furies other losses -America's trying to control the uncontrollable Forest fires,
The essential smile In the essential sleep Of the children Of the essential mindI'm ...

The low yellow  moon above
Quiet lamplit house

-lights out- fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneousecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,the gland inside of my brain dischargingthe good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) asi hap-down and hold all my body partsdown to a deadstop trance-Healingall my...

Birds singing in the dark—Rainy dawn

"Tryna get to sunny Californy" -Boom
It's the awful raincoatmaking me look like a selfdefeated self-murdering imaginary gangster, an idiot in a rueful coat, how can they understand my damp packs - my mud packs - „Look John, a hitchh...

April doesnt hurt
Like it does in New England The
Vast and brown Surrounds dry towns Located in the dust Of the coming
Live for survival, not for "kicks"Be a bangtail describer, like of shrouded traveler in Textile tenemen...

I lie on my back at midnighthearing the marvelous strange chimeof the clocks, and know it's mid-night and in that instant the wholeworld swims into sight for mein the form of beautiful swarm-ing m u t t a worlds-everything is happening,
Buhud...

The taste of rain—Why kneel

And how sweet a story it
When you hear Charley Parker                tell it,
Either on records or at sessions,
Or at offical bits in clubs,