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Keyword: kerouac Matches Found: 427 168TH CHORUS FROM MEXICO CITY BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Asking questions and listening %is sincerity Last Line: -looking over your shoulder %at the beautiful maidens Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) 3 POEM ABOUT TITLES OF NOVELS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White story %story in white Last Line: Quack quack %pa drift Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack AIRAPETIANZ, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Airapetianz, that's his name, connected Last Line: The hand that writes Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack ALL THESE SELFNESSES HAVE ALREADY VANISHED., by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Expanding bubble, and you know what that means Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack AMERICAN LIT: KEROUAC, by HAROLD WITT Poem Source First Line: I'd been on the road but not like them- Last Line: The answer wasn't getting substance kicks %or highs from kinky sex or zen-ah no- %but mens sana in c ANGEL MINE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Angel mine be you fine Last Line: Angel cash -- angel smash %angel hash Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack ARE YOU TIGHTWAD AND ARE YOU MEAN, THOSE ARE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of sin, are alike just so many words Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack AWAKENED BUDDHA TO SHOW THE WAY, THE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The justified one. The happy one Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack BEAT, by JAMES E. CHERRY Poem Source First Line: Kerouac ordered toast and coffee. Black Last Line: Never sailed to appear over the edge of the ocean BEAT HAIKU: FOR KEROUAC, by SUZANNE BURNS Poem Source First Line: Spontaneous is Last Line: You are everywhere BEAU BEBE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the dreams -- of me & lousy & gj Last Line: Other-people roofs Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack BEGINNING WITH A FEW HAIKUS SOME OF THEM ADDRESSES IN THE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lee crawford %1126 san benito Last Line: Then brought me %geranium Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack BERKELEY SONG IN F MAJOR, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walt whitman is striding Last Line: I told about %is is %is Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack BEYOND THE REACH OF CHANGE AND FEAR, BEYOND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And in self-less-ness Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack BLUE TULIPS AND NIGHT TRAIN FOR JACK KEROUAC'S GRAVE, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: This morning I see you slouched beneath the streetlight Last Line: The golden, the furiously burning spirits of the living BOWERY BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For I %prophesy Last Line: Okay. %quit. %mad. %stop Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Bowery, New York City BUDDHA, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I used to sit under trees and meditate Last Line: Buddha say: %'all's possible' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Buddhism BUS EAST, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Society has good intentions Last Line: I understand it all Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack CANTICLE OF JACK KEROUAC, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the sea far from the sea Last Line: He steals away %with the bell CARITAS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah charity, -- a little boy of eight or Last Line: That I go to, to see girls Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack CATS YAWN BECAUSE THEY REALIZE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That there's nothing to do Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack CAUSE OF THE WORLD'S WOE IS BIRTH,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The cure of the world's woe is a bent stick Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack CITY LIGHTS CITY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On via ferlinghetti & kerouac alley young heroes muse melancholy Last Line: & I'll take alcatraz (to return to native americans along with treasure %island) COGNAC BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gets your just dues in Last Line: On earth -- %really Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack COME, COME KEROUAC! MY GENERATION IS BEATER THAN YOURS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dictionary defines progress as an advance toward Last Line: Tinkering around in dayton and at kitty hawk, because I believe two wrights made a wrong Subject(s): Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) COMMAND PERFORMANCE, by ADAM DAVID MILLER Poem Source First Line: Raised surfaces, shapes burned from tin Last Line: Forced by ginsberg's howl and kerouac to feel CUP OF COFFEE FOR KEROUAC, by SUZANNE BURNS Poem Source First Line: You began the beat %with the wisdom of a back-alley poet, cigarette light Last Line: Rest your soul for heaven's wild ride, %kerouac, kerouac, carry on! CURSE AT THE DEVIL, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lucifer sansfoi %varlet sansfoi Last Line: Devil, get thee %back %to russet caves Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack DISCARD SUCH DEFINITE IMAGINATIONS OF PHENOMENA, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We're all in heaven now Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack DISTURBED AND FRIGHTENED MAN IS LIKE THE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And no end and at present it is infinite Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack DO YOU THINK THE EMPTINESS OF THE SKY WILL EVER, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Golden eternity: do what you want Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack DRUNKEN SCRIBBLING POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I got no language left in me heart Last Line: Let no honest (let no onest englishman) twirl %onest Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack EIGHT HUNDRED AND FOUR THOUSAND MYRIADS OF, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dried turd. It's a reward beyond thought Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack EVEN IN DREAMS BE KIND, BECAUSE ANYWAY THERE IS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Persecuted, it's impossible to miss your reward Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack EVERLASTING AND TRANQUIL ESSENCE, LOOK AROUND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Wily was the world made, maya, not-even-made Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT, FORM IS EMPTINESS AND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Everything's alright, cats sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack FAKING IT, by JOHN MILLETT Poem Source First Line: Art should inspire an erection in the soul Last Line: Next to words of kerouac and pound %sleep well my friends FLIES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And wasnt there ever a time when flies Last Line: Is poems instructing lovemilk thru %anemone Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): God FOR KEROUAC, by TOM QUONTAMATTEO Poem Source First Line: To pick up a pen Last Line: What is written is never wrong FUTURE MARTYR OF SUPERSONIC WAVES, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kerouac & %an american president's wife fuck in frenzy Last Line: We sang to him in jewish phrases, where we gave him oxygen GATHA, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting in the chair Last Line: Why predict the predictable?' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack GIVE A GIFT TO YOUR BROTHER, BUT THERE'S NO GIFT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ever-happened. This is the golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack GOD, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his jests serious, in his murders victim Last Line: Tell me now, in your poem Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack GOD IS NOT OUTSIDE US BUT IS JUST US, THE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Done, there's no more to do Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack GOD OF THE AMERICAN PLATEAU INDIAN WAS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I will not have heard them Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack GOOFBALL BLUES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm just a human being with a lot of Last Line: In the flannel grave Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack GOOFBALL SILLYPOMES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These englishers know more madness Last Line: Has not been swept Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon Last Line: Look elsewhere Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Came down from my Last Line: And found no world Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my medicine cabinet Last Line: Has died of old age Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds singing Last Line: Rainy dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arms folded Last Line: Among the cows Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Missing a kick Last Line: It closed anyway Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Straining at the padlock Last Line: At noon Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evening coming Last Line: Unloosing her scarf Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HAIKU BERKELEY, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Haiku snyder Last Line: We'll go down and dive %and see Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HE IS CALLED A YOGI, HE IS CALLED A PRIEST,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To your body and outward into space Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HE WHO LOVES ALL LIFE WITH HIS PITY AND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To do. It's just the natural golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HITCHHIKER, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tryna get to sunny californy' Last Line: Reenshade edition, with axe blots Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack HOW TO MEDITATE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lights out - / fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Meditation HOW TO MEDITATE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lights out - %fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous Last Line: So I don't have to think %and more Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Meditation HYMN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And when you showed me brooklyn bridge %in the morning Last Line: At your service anyway %(and until) Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack I AM THE GOLDEN ETERNITY IN MORTAL ANIMATE FORM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack I REMEMBER THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE A MAN AND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Realizing that your mind caused the world Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack I WAS AWAKENED TO SHOW THE WAY, CHOSE TO, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mortal golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack I WAS SMELLING FLOWERS IN THE YARD, AND WHEN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Thank you thank you Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack IDIOT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Them hindu temples in hoopastan Last Line: Ready for all comers Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack IF I WERE JESUS, GOD, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O tender hearted sweet usurper of my Last Line: Otherwise I'll be in the tree grove %resting up Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack IF THE GOLDEN ETERNITY WAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is what it is and that's all it is Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack IF WE WERE NOT ALL THE GOLDEN ETERNITY WE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Which is already established as the record of karma-earned fate Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack IMAGINARY JUDGMENTS ABOUT THINGS, IN THIS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rootdrinker patting their bellies Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack IN THE TIRE TRUCKS OF KEROUAC, by TERRI BECKWITH Poem Source First Line: They travel the midnight streets in the rain Last Line: That dorothy is right: 'there's no place like home' IT CAME ON TIME., by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack JACK KEROUAC DREAM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's talking speedily about the evil of the feminine but he likes it. Last Line: His eyes moist and glassy JACK KEROUAC'S FUNERAL, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: Where's st. Jean baptiste church JACK KEROUAC'S WILL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear jack, shortly after the march 12 birthday party Last Line: You left everything %to me KEROUAC, by SANDY DIAMOND Poem Source First Line: Crazy howie whacks our lower eastside fiveflight walkup Last Line: The right braid or the left like this %to his sal paradise lips KEROUAC, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't answer Last Line: Vat's the qvestion? KEROUAC CREEK WORK TUNE, by MICHAEL+(2) O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: After three days of summer rain, %I'm back splitting cedar Last Line: Jingle in the sky %like wages KEROUAC, BOB AND THE THIEF OF MUSIC, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: Bob was a dubious messenger Last Line: To bring me the accidental %shapeliness of chaos Subject(s): Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY, UNDERSTANDING AND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Swarming myriad trillionaire you are Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LADY, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The universe is a lady Last Line: We the tealeaves Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LAST HOTEL, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last hotel %I can see the black wall Last Line: The goats I bled %the last hotel Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LAST TIME I SAW KEROUAC, by JOHN ALLEN RYAN Poem Source First Line: One night in the fall of 1958 I was dead broke and very thirsty, and decided to Last Line: Kerouac, escaped from his mother's house; and we had beers and shots and laughed %a lot LATE IMPRESSIONIST DREAM, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a late impressionist dream I am riding in an open touring Last Line: Kerouac and hearing the sound of the sea in which the fish %still speak breton Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters LESSON WAS TAUGHT LONG AGO IN THE OTHER, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of long dead heroes are blank dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LETTER TO ALLEN 1955, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dont wanta see %no senora Last Line: Lavigne's mazatlan address Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LIL POEM ON LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the madman plays with his fertilizers Last Line: Celine, celine, celine Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LONG ISLAND CHINESE POEM RAIN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The years are hurrying Last Line: Nobody in the books %nobody in the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LOOK AT YOUR LITTLE FINGER, THE EMPTINESS OF IT IS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No different than the emptiness of infinity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LOVE IS ALL IN ALL, SAID SAINTE THERESE, CHOOSING, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the morning is a crystal Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack LOWELL, MASS., by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kerouac was born in the same town Last Line: To let him off at the next light Subject(s): Beatniks; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Lowell, Massachusetts MALEST CORNIFICI TUO CATULLO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm happy, kerouac, your madman's allen Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MALEST CORNIFICI TUO CATULLO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm happy, kerouac, your madman's allen Last Line: When they have eyes for me it's like heaven Subject(s): Homosexuality; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) MEDITATE OUTDOORS. THE DARK TREES AT NIGHT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Only the golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICAN LONLINESS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I am an unhappy stranger Last Line: If I do nothing %nothing does Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Mexico; Nothingness; Solitude MEXICO CITY BLUES (100TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That's the porch of the lupine house Last Line: He hugens to re-double %the image, in words Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (101ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We strove to go to movies Last Line: It's a show to go to movies %but a blow the baby be Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (102ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See to it that he never ends,' Last Line: The essence never moved %from folded magnificence Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (103RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father in downtown red Last Line: Is the same empty material %as my father in the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (104TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'd rather be thin than famous Last Line: But I'm fat %paste that in yr. Broadway show Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (105TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Essence is like absence of reality Last Line: The essence of emptiness %is essence of gold Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (106TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man is nowhere anyway Last Line: But that's all up to the saints %I ain't gonna say the saints of innisfree Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (107TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light is late %yes Last Line: Coil, dacoit, tower, %oil - it's all late Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (108TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neither this nor that Last Line: Why should you need them now %why should you now Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (109TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a bright afternoon Last Line: Looking over his newspaper %or poetry pad Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (10TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great hanging weak teat of india Last Line: Swans of balls %spots of foam on the ocean Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (110TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know how to withstand poison Last Line: Floor of undiscovered splendor %in the heart of unhappiness Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (111TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didnt attain nothin Last Line: And abided %in blank ecstacy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (112TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dont sound reasonable, %dont sound possible Last Line: False-lyingly %empty of persimonny Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (113TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Got up and dressed up Last Line: Meaning - you just %numbly dont get there Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (114TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything is perfect, dear friend Last Line: And there to find you %and little ants too Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (115TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Languid junkey speech with lidded eyes Last Line: I mean, of nothing, %that would be best Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (116TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jews wrote american music Last Line: Was jolson the vaudeville singer? %no, and not miles, me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (117TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Me, paraclete, you. Ye Last Line: That chased death %comes and enfolds you Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (118TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's all the same to me Last Line: They were the same %music is noise, poetry dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (119TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Self be your lantern Last Line: Get on back to your kind %boat Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (11TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brown wrote a book called Last Line: (musician stops, %brooding on bandstand Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (120TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Junkies that get too high Last Line: 3 or 4 pages, ossified, %on the nod Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (121ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything is in the same moment Last Line: When you're a fish %the nets of summer destiny Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (122ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot break %something that doesnt exist Last Line: Anyhow regardless of race %regardless of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (123RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The essence is realizable in words Last Line: And be sure to tell them %you love them which you do Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (124TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tall thin rawboned fellow Last Line: To be a jockey %was my thought Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (125TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He shoulda been a football coach Last Line: Buddha's me, in the list, %no-name Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (126TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like running a stick thru water Last Line: The incomparable single greatcart %of the white bullock, all snow Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (127TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows the other side Last Line: Was also %center of lake of light Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (128TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How solid our ignorance Last Line: O lord, %mercy on mission Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (129TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've all been sent Last Line: Then goes. %the victor is not self Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (12TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indian songs in mexico Last Line: Aztec squeaks %(only the mothers are happy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (130TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the victor is not pride Last Line: Wild %where I am mild Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (131ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where I am %and do not miss Last Line: Calls themself mean %calls themself me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (132ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Innumeral infinite songs. %great suffering of the atomic Last Line: (- two jews %- two frenchmen Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (133RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Einstein probably put a lot Last Line: They end up in a %vicious morphine circle Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (134TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The only cure for Last Line: Tooting %'salud' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (135TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ants are gone asleep Last Line: In back se malleys %selling drunks Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (136TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I always did say Last Line: Ow are you? %fall Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (137TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aztec blues %'a kek horrac' Last Line: Of apish majesty %in april's hide of hair Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (138TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's really a brooklyn night Last Line: (blank, the singer %sings nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (139TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said well %bad time of month for me Last Line: Angel gabriel %bright on high Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (13TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a cold Last Line: I popped outa popocatapetl's %hungry mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (140TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fifty pesos %3 cheers forever Last Line: To the eternal return %with no expression Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (141ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Zoom %star %of holy Last Line: Rubioso mostofo %be spark snaked Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (142ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muck ruby %crystal set Last Line: We die with same %unconcern we live Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (143RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: (pause) %junkies %should be practical nurses Last Line: Look at the speed drivers %look at the sex fiends Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (144TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the sex fiends Last Line: Of old atombomb %atlantis Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (145TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bang of m Last Line: H l mencken %edgar lee masters Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (146TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The big engines %in the night Last Line: Floundering %down to kill roy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (147TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sock %wock williby Last Line: Y gerta %was gordo Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (148TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Instrucciones %precaucion %whichever way you look Last Line: The razor in-cut %of void meat Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (149TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I keep falling in love Last Line: In old cabashy %by the lamp Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (14TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And when they saw me Last Line: Aphorism %will allow Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (150TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Appeasement is hypnotism %when the houri indian Last Line: Of grand nirvana's %holy paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (151ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still life %a candle dripped all its Last Line: Bits of dry dust, %black ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (152ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of the tray Last Line: Ash tray of butts %and matchlet tips Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (153RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sir garver is cleaning Last Line: In the south american %pan Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (154TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pan mattress, pan sprang Last Line: His feet clean & shiny %like askin for more Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (155TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And as he keeps washing Last Line: Of purple o gate %o j o Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (156TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know we're all straight Last Line: That you ignore %because you want to Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (157TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The art of kindness Last Line: Sorrowing starborrowing %happiness parade Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (158TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It wont happen is what Last Line: It aint happenin now %smile & think deeply Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (159TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blook bleak. %bleak was blook Last Line: In a glutinous sea %(of lese majesty Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (15TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meaning - %I'm just an old calvert Last Line: Santayanan %everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (160TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poppa told me a perfect pome Last Line: For future - %that's your come itself Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (161ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's a starry disaster Last Line: Article - %(con salsa Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (162ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bill's dreams %slim girls in thin kimonos Last Line: And a guy passing bread %passes him up Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (163RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Left the tombs to go Last Line: And breathe out the fat - %- hurry back to the tombs Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (164TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grand central station, %side entrance Last Line: And you sit a table %and suddenly there's a guy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (165TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the table %cooking your leg Last Line: Like the sudden thought %of india is a dream Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (166TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A home for unmarried fathers Last Line: In his helmet %jesus Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (167TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The details are all the same Last Line: Abiding everywhere in %beginningless ecstatic nobody Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (168TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Asking questions and listening Last Line: - looking over your shoulder %at the beautiful maidens Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (169TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lie down %rest %breathe slowly Last Line: Of their inexhaustible delicacy %dead in time - rest in time Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (16TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Santayana meaning, %holy vehicle Last Line: In your bed %of hair earth Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (170TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in delicacy %the far border of the puff lace Last Line: Of the minds of the lapis %lazuli old saints Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (171ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear that serrenade Last Line: In tune with you %with you Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (172ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear that Last Line: In the candle of the handle %of the coffin to blame Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (173ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The funerals of the doornails Last Line: By means of men tubes %invented by the 95 devils Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (174TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The freshwater eels of europe Last Line: And die with long faced pouts %- poor fish Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (175TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cunalingus %my sister's playin piana in vienna Last Line: Of the river west - %the multiple too-much of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (176TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The reason why there are so many things Last Line: But, but, but, but, but, %it keeps adding up Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (177TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, tendril %I dont wanta play like that Last Line: Light, %the holy gold so-called Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (178TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Put the blame on intelligence Last Line: Do I exist? %(I don't even exist anyhow Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (179TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glenn miller and I were heroes Last Line: Dreadful murderer %buddha Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (17TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Starspangled kingdoms bedecked %in dewy joint Last Line: Madness rioting %everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (180TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you work on that railroad Last Line: Cincinnatta - %poetry just doesnt get there Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (181ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The girls go for that long red Last Line: Is a sucker %'someone lower than she is' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (182ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The essence of existence Last Line: Of the brain - %one dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Buddhism MEXICO CITY BLUES (183RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only awake to universal mind Last Line: It is empty, %accept as thus - the truth Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (184TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men are afraid to forget Last Line: Right eternities %for me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (185TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, pistil - %'as old as space' Last Line: Of dogs - %farewell, puppy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (186TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's all happening in snow Last Line: Ya %is okay Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (187TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not seek, %and eliminate nothing Last Line: Sax, %heaven, you, me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (188TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And tonight I'll pray Last Line: No-me - I beseech %save no-me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (189TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Petronic, satiricon - %the black mass is the christian Last Line: Elegant queer, %my dear Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (18TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bottom of the repository Last Line: Of long ago %on carpets of bloody sawdust Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (190TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What I have attained in buddhism Last Line: No matter how you cut it %it's empty delightful boloney Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (191ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My startingplace any my goal Last Line: For confirmation %(and I see waving whitenesses Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (192ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who holdest the seal Last Line: Buddha (who is awake), perfect %in pity and intelligence Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (193RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who has accomplished, %and is accomplishing Last Line: Kingmaker, ding %dong, the buddha's gong Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (194TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being in selfless one-ness Last Line: Mechanic sariputran %minnesinging gurus, on we rave Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (195TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The songs that erupt Last Line: Let me hear 'bout heaven %in brass fluglemop Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (196TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So I write about heaven Last Line: Looking for nirvana %inside me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (197TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, inside me, %I'se free Last Line: Face, %I love ye Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (198TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nirvana aint inside me Last Line: Of the pier - %just not there Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (199TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Empty balloons of gorgeous? Last Line: Mind %essence Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (19TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Christ had a dove on his shoulder Last Line: By trial & conviction %in the court of awful glots Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (1ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butte magic of ignorance Last Line: Merudvhaga %mersion of missy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (200TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White figures throughout %made of light Last Line: The color %into nirvana no Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (201ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the girls start puttin Last Line: Of the skies %and they claim Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (202ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A white poem, a white pure Last Line: Honey land %blues Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (203RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's inside you but there's no you Last Line: And heal yourself well %(and what's been healed? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (204TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's been buried in the grave? Last Line: And clay bones. %buddha's river Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (205TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the holy stream Last Line: Dis-beturbable ameget %me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (206TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maaaaaah! Said the sheep Last Line: & blaring unrecognized %as emptiness and silence Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (207TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aztec blues - imitation of pound Last Line: To bye/ %tona ti uh:- 'of the sunken your ear' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (208TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anciently in cities %men have been sitting Last Line: Are your father's kindly %buriers Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (209TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, that about does me in Last Line: Want gold want gold %gold of eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (20TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The art of kindness a limping sonnet Last Line: Shore - %ferry's arrived Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (210TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Impressionism. The drowned afternoon Last Line: Basket. A tisket. Tasket. %athabasket. Ma the basket Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (211TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wheel of the quivering meat Last Line: Of that slaving meat wheel %and safe in heaven dead Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (212TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All of this meat is in dreadful pain Last Line: To be alive just to die %and die in denizen misery Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (213TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poem dedicated to allen ginsberg Last Line: Ding my bell, smile for the ladies, %come from hell Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (214TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ling the long chinese peeswallower Last Line: Song, ring the devil free, %ong, ring the biney free Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (215TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moll the mingling, mixup Last Line: O %sail to sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (216TH-A CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fuck, I'm tired of the imagery Last Line: Louis %miseree Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (216TH-B CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Filling the air with an arbitrary dream Last Line: The venerable kerouac, friend of cows %depend on vast motionless thought Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (216TH-C CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well roofed plesant little hut Last Line: All shine in the dust, %all the same novice scotia Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (217TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sooladat smarty pines came prappin down Last Line: Twabble %all day Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (218TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sight the saver having from the coast Last Line: Ow oh all %official seminary Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (219TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saints, I give myself up to thee Last Line: No saints? No no no my saints. %no no? No such thing as no Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (21ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not very musical, the western ear Last Line: Saved %saved my bhikkucitas Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (220TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pieces of precious emerald and jade Last Line: The lump sunshine %delicious is the taste of porcupine Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (221ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old man mose early american jazz pianist Last Line: But deadbelly get ahead %ha ha ha Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Jazz; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949; Music And Musicians MEXICO CITY BLUES (222ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mexico camera %I'm walkin down orizaba street Last Line: And bash bah %the plap Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (223RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pineys hursaphies, %finally allawies Last Line: Boon of snow white blooms in parkadystan %istamhow huck Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (224TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great god amighty %what's to be done? Last Line: So rest' %repose yourself Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (225TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The void that's highly embraceable Last Line: Oh, ah, gold, honey, %I've lost my way Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (226TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no way to lose Last Line: The black bus has departed - %or - what? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (227TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Merde and misery, %I'm completely in pain Last Line: Magnified 1000 times %in hells of eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (228TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Praised be man, he is existing in milk Last Line: Praised be my fellow man %for dwelling in milk Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (229TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the ocean there's a very sad turtle Last Line: To be reborn a man %in this karma earth Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (22ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saved my bhikkucitos %for the holy hair Last Line: Instead of listening in %to the light - still a fool Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (230TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love's multitudinous boneyard of decay Last Line: Like kissing my kitten in the belly %the softness of our reward Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (231ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead and don't know it Last Line: When rock becomes air %I will be there Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (232ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buddhists are the only people who dont lie Last Line: Doorways, into sleep-with-me %the alley way behind Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (233RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no selfhood that can begin the practice Last Line: No selfhood that can begin the practice %of seeking to attain Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (234TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Holy poetry. %'all things are empty of self-marks.' Last Line: A sinner may go to heaven %by serving god as a sinner Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (235TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dont camp. %you know very well Last Line: Oh me, oh my, %hello - come in Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (236TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The buddhist saints are the incomparable saints Last Line: Lapse and absence of them both %(in love's holy void abode) Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (237TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ma mere, tu est la terre.' Last Line: Damema the milky mother %damema the secret hero Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (238TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who was it wrote 'money is the root of all evil?' Last Line: Priotho consumas konas %in the corner, & mother damema Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (239TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Charley parker looked like buddha Last Line: That ultimately find expression %in more and what have you Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955) MEXICO CITY BLUES (23RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chorus no. 1 of Last Line: Wallopin fat rushing %was a wow old saloon man Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (240TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Musically as important as beethoven Last Line: And white meat, and die %one after one, in time Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (241ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And how sweet a story it is Last Line: - charley parker, lay the bane, %off me, and every body Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Repentance MEXICO CITY BLUES (242ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound in your mind Last Line: All's well ! %I am the guard Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Sound MEXICO CITY BLUES (24TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All great statements ever made Last Line: In the immensities of the sea %at midnight in the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (25TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry about death Last Line: But found by self-loser - %old ancient teaching Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (26TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knew all along %that when chicken is eaten Last Line: Pureland - %buddha loved all sentient beings Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (27TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Krissake wakeup %nuts like carl solomon Last Line: Balloons is the ending %that's the scene Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (28TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The discriminating mind. %discrimination is when, say Last Line: You suffer & you fall, %you discriminate a ball Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (29TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man, now, you wont let me talk' Last Line: All their baptists %have not been to shool Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (2ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man is not worried in the middle Last Line: Through the tall grass %to face the pool of clear frogs Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (30TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tender is the night Last Line: Tender was his foreskin, %tender his nape Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (31ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three saints in four acts Last Line: Stomping their feet %on pirandelloan stage Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (32ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Newton's theory of relativity Last Line: Monotonous monotony %of endless grape dirigible stars Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (33RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A vast cavern, huh? Last Line: And the rest of my life %to do it Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (34TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have no plans Last Line: Of opium %that's enough, isn't it? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (35TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the best show Last Line: Quote from plato right? %time on a bat - growl of truck Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (36TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No direction %no direction to go Last Line: (ripping of paper indicates %helplessness anyway Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (37TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mad about the boy Last Line: - (remember that little %box of tacks? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (38TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: (pome beginning with parenthesis Last Line: Usually %plan pleasant paper Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (39TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Comfortable patience - %talkin about a hobbyman Last Line: And fingers a pair %in v victory - meaning one Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (3RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Describe fires in riverbottom Last Line: Ojo! %the purple paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (40TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did bespat and beshit himself rebelais Last Line: And washed the old man's %river underwear Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (41ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That other part of your mind Last Line: Of mind's central %comedy balloons Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (42ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poem written on a sailboat Last Line: Even on a sailboat %I end up writin bop Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (43RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mexico city bop %I got the huck bop Last Line: Salvation mind %slippity bop Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (44TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waves of cantos and choruses Last Line: The lay of the pack %in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (45TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Euphonism, a softening of sounds Last Line: Ouch %inch of grace, sigh Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (46TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream that bill Last Line: Yet forgotten - %is all Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (47TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where is italy? %how can I find it in my mind Last Line: Dusk of war 1943 - %what happened in italy? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (48TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marco polo had canals Last Line: Preside %(like before they were born Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (49TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They got nothing on me Last Line: For my fate %to estate Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (4TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Roosevelt was worth 6.7 million dollars Last Line: In a big barrel %stunk but good Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) MEXICO CITY BLUES (50TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I'm crazy, and my parts Last Line: On the igloo stone %of some north mad Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (51ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: America is a permissible dream Last Line: Transcendental %orb of balloon Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (52ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm crazy everywhere %like the guy sailed on that ferry Last Line: Returned for payment %in america madhouse Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (53RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily we roll along Last Line: More on bread than wine - %s h h h says the holy sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (54TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night in 1941 I was a kid Last Line: Hastened out of sight %into memorial cello time Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (55TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was in the hospital Last Line: Kolya krosotkins %of my railroad Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (56TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At another hospital %I almost died Last Line: Everything he ate %turned to water Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (57TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green goofballs, %blue heavens Last Line: Till you get about 35 in ya %and then lay down on your back Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (58TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All about goofballs, %all about morphine Last Line: Looked %when you're standin there Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (59TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then I always manage to get Last Line: That sittin quietly with a new shot %and knows tomorrow's plenty more Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (5TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am not gregory corso Last Line: If you know what I %palabra Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Corso, Gregory (1930-2001) MEXICO CITY BLUES (60TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cil %rubberbands seventyfivedollars Last Line: I am still for them %I got eyes of avalokitesvara Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (61ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And all my own sins Last Line: Of your doubts - %'s all about angels' sins Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (62ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A warrant for arrest Last Line: Or go to jail %keep the door locked Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (63RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rather gemmy, %said the king of literature Last Line: From anything %but a heavenly farm Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (64TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'd rather die than be famous Last Line: At night the zing of silence %from the halls of assembled Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (65TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To understand what I'm sayin Last Line: Explaining the dharma %in a sutra so high Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (66TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dharma law %say %all things is made Last Line: And the gist of it nothing-ness %such-ness Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (67TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suchness %is tathata, the name Last Line: Nothing there but the picture %in the movie in your mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (68TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My disciples of the modern world Last Line: Poor %never die Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (69TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary %who's my mother? Last Line: But the catholic church %s hw vass iss? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (6TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This thinking is stopped Last Line: The great ferryman %the great vehicle being Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (70TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is my father? Last Line: Are the communists %& fanatical jews Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (71ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fanatical spews %fanatical mews Last Line: And flew pigeons & cocks %welcome home Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (72ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The higher criticism %if you know what I mean Last Line: Remember %na o Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (73RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The book of pluviums Last Line: Merp. %hoot gibson Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (74TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Darling!' %red hot. %that kind of camping Last Line: Girls %very high cantos Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (75TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But cantos oughta sing Last Line: Of %thieves Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (76TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A guy's asking a question Last Line: Go on, you're having one big dream, %that would be my answer.' (bill Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (77TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dreery my dear' %the time we crossed madrid Last Line: And they stopped %at a balcony Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (78TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A porte corriere %of spanish Last Line: Erv old %men Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (79TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Story about what? %(story about babyhood Last Line: What to do with yourself %live or die Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (7TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who is free from arbitrary conceptions Last Line: The maker of light %the destroyer of light Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (80TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Goofing at the table Last Line: Singing: - 'you'll never know %just how much I love you.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (81ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr beggar & mrs davy Last Line: All that luney %&fruney Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (82ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fracons, acons, & beggs Last Line: Juner and mooner %moon, spoon, and june Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (83RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't they call them Last Line: Carlos %williams Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (84TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Singing: - %by the light Last Line: If the right words are %important Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (85TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you really need Last Line: Will end %asininity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (86TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Take your pick, %if you wanta commit suicide Last Line: Is merde %air Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (87TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These things in a big structure of confession Last Line: In the twat and the twaddle %of the lovegirl marriage Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (88TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to marry a lovegirl Last Line: Was afraid of myself simply, %and afraid a evryone else Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (89TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering my birth in infancy, the coughs Last Line: Wild howl lupine cold the moony %and loony nights Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (8TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious red rivers of the north Last Line: Of earth receiving %juicy rivers - red earth Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (90TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I was a phantom Last Line: Of life-belief. %I knew, I hoped, to go to be saved Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (91ST CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If that phantom was reaal Last Line: And it never happens, %pow! Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (92ND CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was all right Last Line: See the sun of sadness at six %in the windows of their snow slope? Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (93RD CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But I knew they hadnt Last Line: Of this very kitchen. %I pouted in my childhood Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (94TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But now I will describe Last Line: Aint go no story, just verse %it was a crazy place to take us, I mean Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (95TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was where I learned to say 'door' Last Line: Of heaven given %joy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (96TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I tumbled down the street Last Line: In a coffin. %but I raced my bicycle safey Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (97TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Meanwhile there's my pa, alone in street Last Line: He thinks of me, %'he'll get it too.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (98TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father loves me Last Line: Pretty soon the poorhouse - %('wish I was god,' he adds to think Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (99TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father, leo alcide kerouac Last Line: No mail, you see the flash of his anxious %head looking in the void for nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO CITY BLUES (9TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're all taking short cut Last Line: Indy portuga %coit Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MEXICO ROOFTOP, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's blue -- with a pink movie neon Last Line: Throw it in a drawer Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MOON, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon her magic be, big sad face Last Line: In any case %the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MOSQUITO AS BIG AS MOUNT EVEREST IS MUCH, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Robe of the mother truth in a roman dungeon Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MOTHER KALI EATS HERSELF BACK. ALL THINGS BUT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Asked to be only what they are: glad Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack MY GANG, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many people have been frightened & died in cemeteries Last Line: Be cruel, I'll be cruel Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Youth MY VIEWS ON RELIGION, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven has everything to do with healing Last Line: And god is god Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack NANA: ON KEROUAC, by MARK DECARTERET Poem Source First Line: He wrote some nice poems Last Line: Two or three wives NEAL IN COURT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All neal's life has been hard Last Line: On the corner of %snark & phnark Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968) NOTES FROM A CHILD OF PARADISE: III : 6, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter thaw. Abruptly it replays Last Line: (the kerouac stand-in) as a late avatar %of whitman. Perpetual journeys: why not splice O EVERLASTING ETERNITY, ALL THINGS AND ALL TRUTH, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To that which everything is Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack OLD WESTERN MOVIES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A jedge in the western comin from the south Last Line: Kid dream %hid %in the leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack ON ETHER, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heel of eloheim Last Line: Just %as %pure %as I Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack ON WAKING FROM A DREAM OF ROBERT FOURNIER, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Robert, robert, yr beautiful big mother Last Line: Goodnight. %sleep you all Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack OVERTURE FOR GILBERT MILLSTEIN, by DAVID MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Ask hemingway, kerouac, or even james joyce Last Line: To bring sorrow, charm, enlighten, and %to turn you on PAX, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I demand that the human race Last Line: And one morning wont get up from my mat Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack Variant Title(s): Poe PERFECTLY SELFLESS, THE BEAUTY OF IT, THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mood that you saw the light that belongs to everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack PERM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world goes on Last Line: In the streets of sorrow parade Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You start off by suckin in Last Line: What milk and smoke %denote Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Told him all about minoan civilization Last Line: Gotta be holy high Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old hornet me %would woo thee Last Line: And woos bees Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could become a great grinning host Last Line: Hung up in heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anyway the time has come to explain Last Line: Out of a white tiot Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am god Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEM FOR JACK KEROUAC IN CALIFORNIA, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: You hear that dead man Last Line: The deeper the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom POEM WRITTEN IN THE ZOCO CHICO, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He walks %without thinking about the sea Last Line: The history of the world is lost in silence Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POEMS OF THE BUDDHAS OF OLD, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boys were sittin Last Line: In honor of the door Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POIM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walking on water Last Line: Nothing happened %everybody invited Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POINT IS WE'RE WAITING, NOT HOW COMFORTABLE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting for the realization that this is the golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POME, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Be me bespangled dotted-hat fool Last Line: I'd rather piss on scroll %than parch this Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POME ON DOCTOR SAX, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his declining years doctor sax was an old bum living in skid Last Line: Approach sax, who squealed Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack POOR SOTTISH KEROUAC, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poor sottish kerouac with his thumb in his eye Last Line: The white dove descended in disguise Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack PRAYER, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, what have you hoarded up Last Line: In your great free treasure Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack PULL MY DAISY, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Pit my plum %let my gap be shut Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack READING KEROUAC, YORKSHIRE, by STEVE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Today, jack, your words won't console Last Line: We would taste in our minds Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REALIZER. ENTERTAIN NO IMAGINATIONS WHATEVER,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is human godhood Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack REQUIESCAT, by ALBERT HUFFSTICKLER Poem Source First Line: Kerouac saw doom at the end Last Line: And sleep for all eternity %or at least %till the worst of it's forgotten ROARING DREAMS TAKE PLACE IN A PERFECTLY SILENT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack RUNNING THROUGH -- CHINESE POEM SONG, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O I today %sad as chu yuan Last Line: That's what I %wanted to say Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SCRIPTURE OF THE GOLDEN ETERNITY, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did I create the sky? Yes, for, it was Last Line: Eternal ecstasy, now and forever Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SEA SHROUD (A DESCRIPTION OF MY LAST CARTOON), by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shroud comes out of a ship Last Line: To see which way borough hall %which way the little white doves Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SECOND TEACHING FROM THE GOLDEN ETERNITY, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: From the golden eternity. So be sure Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SECRET GOD-GRIN IN THE TREES AND IN THE TEAPOT,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Truth law, the universal thisness Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SHACK OF DESOLATION, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The shack of desolation is dirty, with broken boxes of wood Last Line: And clouds pass thru my ink Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SILLY GOOFBALL POMES: SONG OF THE NEW CHINESE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moose is a noble dolt Last Line: The cockroach is reverenced, %the bedbug rolls Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SKEN 3, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Radiations of akshobva Last Line: Emptiness in that little %pot, & bug flies Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SKID ROW WINE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I coulda done a lotg worse than sit Last Line: Of the world's whirling diamond Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SMALL RITUAL FOR KEROUAC, by KIRK ROBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Take two short dogs Last Line: Of some lonesome %high sierra road SOCIABILITY IS A BIG SMILE, AND A BIG SMILE IS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nothing but teeth. Rest and be kind Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SOMETHING SERIOUS FOR AL GELPI, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How trite %the newspapers Last Line: This suffering %can't be called, %some kind of heresy Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack STARE DEEP INTO THE WORLD BEFORE YOU AS IF IT WERE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And find the true light Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack STRICTLY SPEAKING, THERE IS NO ME, BECAUSE ALL IS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All is bliss Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack SUDDEN SKETCH POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gary's ink has a shroudy burlap Last Line: And all for verse I wrote it Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack TANGIER POEM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your father spurted you out in perfect ghost-form Last Line: How can you be icarus Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THANK YOU, JACK KEROUAC, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Brown haired baby, let Last Line: Underneath these thin sheets Subject(s): Hearts; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Love THAT LITTLE KEROUAC POEM, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: The one with the eyes in the bone Last Line: And the thought of no further %words still can hear THAT SKY, IF IT WAS ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Golden eternity. I am mortal golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THE CANTICLE OF JACK KEROUAC, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the sea far from the sea Subject(s): Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) THE-ATTAINER-TO-THAT-WHICH-EVERYTHING-IS,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the china school, not a thing is Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THERE IS A BLESSEDNESS SURELY TO BE BELIEVED,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THERE'S NO NEED TO DENY THAT EVIL THING CALLED, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Plays, dreams, not even plays, dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THERE'S NO SYSTEM OF TEACHING AND NO REWARD, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That nothing will be acquired, at last Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THERE'S THE WORLD IN THE DAYLIGHT. IF IT WAS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dont worry about nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THINGS DONT TIRE OF GOING AND COMING,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The flies end up with the delicate viands Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THIS IS THE FIRST TEACHING FROM, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THIS IS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SEES THE GOLDEN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Me, and which is no longer us, you, me Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THIS TRUTH LAW HAS NO MORE REALITY THAN THE WORLD., by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THIS WORLD IS THE MOVIE OF WHAT EVERYTHING IS,, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THOUGH IT IS EVERYTHING, STRICTLY SPEAKING, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: These forms, emptiness is this one formhood Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THRASHING DOVES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the back of the dark chinese store Last Line: In crib made of clay (blue in the moon). %for the doves Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THREE AMERICAN HAIKUS: 2, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new moon Last Line: Is the toe nail %of god Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THREE AMERICAN HAIKUS: 3, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Run over by my lawnmower Last Line: Waiting for me to leave, %the frog Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THREE AMERICAN HAIKUS:1, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A raindrop from Last Line: Fell in my beer Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack THREE TANGIER POEMS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vapors mere %shapes so dear Last Line: Beneath the molten moon Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack TO LOU LITTLE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lou, my father thught you put him down Last Line: Fudge sundaes & steaks in the %lion's den Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack TWO DHARMA NOTES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The buddha-teaching %must be relinquished Last Line: Cornelian, red pearls, %crystal, agate Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack UP IN HEAVEN YOU WONT REMEMBER ALL THESE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fight over nothing? Bless and sit down Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack VARIOUS LITTLE POMES, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ants go roaming Last Line: Imitating brahma %god -- allah Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT THOSE TREES AND, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just the same natural golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WHAT NAME SHALL WE GIVE IT WHICH HATH NO, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This is the lesson you forgot Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WHEN THE PRINCE OF KALINGA SEVERED THE, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Light and died kind, loving all living things Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WHEN YOU'VE UNDERSTOOD THIS SCRIPTURE, THROW IT, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Throw it away. I insist on your freedom Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WHY DID SHE ASK US TO WRITE THIS WAY ANYWAY THE MOOD MOVES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we even practice this craft while the radio is on Last Line: Homage to kerouac Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WOMAN, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A woman is beautiful Last Line: A handkerchief in the %wind Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WOMB OF EXUBERANT FERTILITY, ASHVHAGHOSHA, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Significance attached to this Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack WORLD WAS SPUN OUT OF A BLADE OF GRASS:, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Imperturbed, is the golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack YOU ARE THE GOLDEN ETERNITY BECAUSE THERE IS, by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No me and no you, only one golden eternity Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack [ENLIGHTENMENTS], by JOHN KEROUAC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you become enlightened Last Line: Goodbye, rexroth %until next time Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack |
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