Jack Kerouac Poems Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

Nebraska (Jack Kerouac Poems)

April doesnt hurt hereLike it does in New EnglandThe groundVast and brownSurrounds dry townsLocated in the dustOf the coming locustLive ...

Daydreams for Ginsberg (Jack Kerouac Poems)

I lie on my back at midnighthearing the marvelous strange chimeof the clocks, and know it's mid-night and in that ...

Bus East (Jack Kerouac Poems)

Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend5years ago - other furies other losses -America'strying to control the uncontrollable ...

211th Chorus (Jack Kerouac Poems)

The wheel of the quivering meat conceptionTurns in the void expelling human beings,Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,Mice, lice, lizards, rats, roanRacinghorses, ...

241st Chorus (Jack Kerouac Poems)

And how sweet a story it isWhen you hear Charley Parker tell it,Either on records or at sessions,Or at offical bits ...

How to Meditate (Jack Kerouac Poems)

-lights out-fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneousecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,the gland inside of my brain dischargingthe good ...

Hitchhiker (Jack Kerouac Poems)

"Tryna get to sunny Californy" -Boom. It's the awful raincoatmaking me look like a selfdefeated self-murdering imaginary gangster, an idiot ...

3rd Chorus Mexico City Blues (Jack Kerouac Poems)

Describe fires in riverbottomsand, and the cooking;the cooking of hot dogsspitted in whittled sticksover flames of woodfirewith grease dropping in ...