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The Moment
The moment when, after many yearsof hard work and a long voyageyou stand in the centre of your room,house, half-acre, square mile, island..
© Margaret Atwood
A Sad Child
You're sad because you're sad.It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pill,or hug your sadness like an eyeless dollyou..
© Margaret Atwood
Trees
But a tree hasa long suffering shapeIsspread in halfby 2 limbed fateRises from gray rainpavementsTo traffic in the bleakbrown airOf cities radar..
© Jack Kerouac
To Harpo Marx
O Harpo! When did you seem like an angelthe last time?and played the gray harp of gold?When did you steal the silverwareand bug-spray the guests?When..
© Jack Kerouac
The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity
1Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was anything other than a conception in my mind I wouldnt have said 'Sky'-That is why I am the golden..
© Jack Kerouac
Tenorman
Sweet sad young tenorHorn slumped around neckBearded full of junkSlouches waitingFor Apocalypse,Listens to the newNegro raw trumpet kidTell him the..
© Jack Kerouac
On Tears
Tears is the break of my brow,The moony tempestuousSitting downIn dark railyardsWhen to see my mother’s faceRecalling from the waking visionI wept to..
© Jack Kerouac
Nebraska
April doesnt hurt hereLike it does in New EnglandThe groundVast and brownSurrounds dry townsLocated in the dustOf the coming locustLive for survival..
© Jack Kerouac
The Christmas TreeDad: “Why is our tree still up in March?”Son: “Because I believe in recycling — we’ll just call it an early one for next year!”
© New Year’s Day
The Alarm ClockMy New Year’s resolution was to wake up early.So I bought three alarm clocks.Now I wake up early… to turn them all off and go back to..
© New Year’s Day
The Diet PromiseOn January 1st, I started a diet.On January 2nd, I finished it — with a big piece of cake to celebrate my success!
© New Year’s Day
The Resolution— This year, I’ve decided to stop procrastinating!— Great! When will you start?— Maybe next week…
© New Year’s Day
In Vain
The stars in the skyIn vainThe tragedy of HamletIn vainThe key in the lockIn vainThe sleeping motherIn vainThe lamp in the cornerIn vainThe lamp in..
© Jack Kerouac
How To Meditate
lights out-fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneousecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,the gland inside of my brain dischargingthe good glad..
© Jack Kerouac
Hitchhiker
'Tryna get to sunny Californy' -Boom. It's the awful raincoatmaking me look like a selfdefeated self-murdering imaginary gangster, an idiot in a..
© Jack Kerouac
Daydreams For Ginsberg
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..
© Jack Kerouac
Bus East
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend5 years ago - other furies other losses -America'strying to control the uncontrollable Forest..
© Jack Kerouac