Bus East

Jack KerouacJack Kerouac

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Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend
years ago - other furies other losses -America's
trying to control the uncontrollable Forest fires, ViceThe essential smile In the essential sleep Of the children Of the essential mindI'm
all thru playing the American
Now I'm going to live a good quiet lifeThe
world should be built for foot walkersOily
rivers Of spiney NevadyI
am Jake Cake
Rake
Write like BlakeThe
horse is not pleased Sight of his
gorgeous finery
in the dust Its silken
nostrils
did disgustCats
arent kind Kiddies anent sweetApril
in Nevada - Investigating Dismal Cheyenne Where the war parties
In fields
of straw
Aimed over oxen At Indian Chiefs
In wild headdress Pouring thru
the gap
In Wyoming plain
To make the settlers
Eat more dust than dust
was eaten In the States From East at Seacoast Where wagons made up To dreadful
Plains
Of clazer vupSaltry
settlers
Anxious to ******* The Mongol Sea (I'm too tired in Cheyenne -
No sleep in nights now, & to go)
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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