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…

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…

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 "

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…

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