Jack Kerouac
1922-1969 / Male / American
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Haiku
Birds singing / in the dark / —Rainy dawn.
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Daydreams for Ginsberg
I lie on my back at midnight / hearing the marvelous strange chime / of the clocks, and know it's mid-
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Nebraska
April doesnt hurt here / Like it does in New England / The ground
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Hitchhiker
'Tryna get to sunny Californy' - / Boom. It's the awful raincoat / making 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 -
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Bus East
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend / 5 years ago - other furies other losses - / America's
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How to Meditate
-lights out- / fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous / ecstasy like a shot of ****** or morphine,
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Haiku (The low yellow...)
The low yellow / moon above the / Quiet lamplit house.
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211th Chorus
The wheel of the quivering meat / conception / Turns in the void expelling human beings,
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10th Chorus Mexico City Blues
The great hanging weak **** of India / on the map / The Fingernail of Malaya
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149th Chorus
I keep falling in love / with my mother, / I dont want to hurt her
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