Circular from America
Against the eagled
Hemisphere
I lean my eager
Editorial ear
And what the devil
You think I hear?
I hear the Beat
No not of the heart
But the dull palpitation
Of the New Art
As, on the dead tread,
Mill of no mind,
It follows its leaders
Unbeaten behind.
O Kerouac Kerouac
What on earth shall we do
If a single Idea
Ever gets through?
. . . 1/2 an idea
To a hundred pages
Now Jack, dear Jack,
That ain't fair wages
For labouring through
Prose that takes ages
Just to announce
That Gods and Men
Ought all to study
The Book of Zen.
If you really think
So low of the soul
Why don't you write
On a toilet roll?
poem by George Barker
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0413 There not back Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
thought to track
the real America
on the road
but forgot to pack
his full stop
so lost the point
and thus didn't stop
'til plop!
into the Pacific
with a smack
but found it terrific
so never went back
for that full stop
and lost the point
but found himself
did Jack
Kerouac.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
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Lost Poets
Jack Kerouac wrote somewhere
America is a lonely crocashit.
I scribbled it down
And my ex-wife placed it
In Pablo Neruda’s book
Twenty Love Poems And A Song Of Despair.
I found it years after she was gone
And it made everything
Seem logical and reasonable.
But it is not just America:
Every place is afflicted
With terrible stinging tears
And loveless lives
And unfulfilled longing.
Like Kerouac, most poets
Are sad alcoholics;
Maybe everyone in the world
Is a lost poet.
poem by Uriah Hamilton
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She's Got The Jack
She gave me the Queen
She gave me the King
She was wheelin' and dealin'
Just doin' her thing
She was holdin' a pair
But I had to try
Her Deuce was wild
But my Ace was high
But how was I to know
That she'd been dealt with before
Said she'd never had a Full House
But I should have known
From the tattoo on her left leg
And the garter on her right
She'd have the card to bring me down
If she played it right
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack
She's got the jack
Poker face was her name
Poker face was her nature
Poker straight was her game
If she knew she could get you
She played 'em fast
And she played 'em hard
She could close her eyes
And feel every card
But how was I to know
That she'd been shuffled before
Said she'd never had a Royal Flush
But I should have known
That all the cards were comin'
From the bottom of the pack
And if I'd known what she was dealin' out
I'd have dealt it back
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, and who knows what else?
She's got the jack, yeah, yeah
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack
She's got the jack
She's got the jack, she's got the jack,
Ooh, It was a bad deal, (Jack)
She gave me the (Jack), hey
She's got the (Jack), she's got the (Jack)
She's got the (Jack), ooh can't you tell
She's got the (Jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack)
(She's got the jack, she's got the Jack)
She's got the jack, she's got the Jack
She's got the jack, you never know!
She's got the jack, she's got the jack
She's got the jack
She's got the jack, and it hurts!
(She's got the jack)
She's got the jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack
She's got the jack
Aaaaaah!
Oooooh!
Thank you, thank you, thank you people, thank you, thank you
I'm glad you like the show, yes, thank you very much folks.
Goodnight and God bless
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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My witness is the empty sky.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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The taste
of rain
—Why kneel?
haiku by Jack Kerouac
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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All of life is a foreign country.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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Accept loss forever.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
quote by Jack Kerouac
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One Flower
One flower
on the cliffside
Nodding at the canyon
poem by Jack Kerouac
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