Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollars
He was Tight
Frog waits
Till poor fly
Flies by
And then they got him
The pool of clear rocks
Covered with vegetable scum
Covered the rocks
Clear the pool
Covered the warm surface
Covered the lotus
Dusted the watermelon flower
Aerial the Pad
Clean queer the clear
blue water
AND THEN THEY GOT HIM
The Oil of the Olive
Bittersweet taffies
Bittersweet cabbage
Cabbage soup made right
A hunk a grass
Sauerkraut let work
in a big barrel
Stunk but Good
(Jack Kerouac)
More Poetry from Jack Kerouac:
Jack Kerouac Poems based on Topics: Water- Nebraska (Jack Kerouac Poems)
- Daydreams for Ginsberg (Jack Kerouac Poems)
- Bus East (Jack Kerouac Poems)
- 211th Chorus (Jack Kerouac Poems)
- 241st Chorus (Jack Kerouac Poems)
- How to Meditate (Jack Kerouac Poems)
Readers Who Like This Poem Also Like:
Based on Topics: Water PoemsBased on Keywords: roosevelt, watermelon, hunk, bittersweet, sauerkraut, stunk
- Book III - Part 03 - The Soul is Mortal (Lucretius Poems)
- Out Of The East (John Freeman Poems)
- Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
- Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 03 - Atomic Forms And Their Combinations (Lucretius Poems)
- Rhodon And Iris. Act III (Ralph Knevet Poems)