149th Chorus

Jack KerouacJack Kerouac

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I keep falling in love
with my mother,
I dont want to hurt her
-Of all people to hurt.Every time I see her
she's grown older
But her uniform always
amazes me
For its Dutch simplicity
And the Doll she is,
The doll-like way
she stands
Bowlegged in my dreams,
Waiting to serve me.And I am only an Apache
Smoking Hashi
In old Cabashy
By the Lamp.
Jack Kerouac
About the poet

Jack Kerouac

Autobiographical novels, such as On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958), of American writer Jack Kerouac, originally Jean-Louis Kerouac, embody the values of the Beat Generation.Career of Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac began in the 1940s but met not with…

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