as i am busy with school
as i am a bit blocked
as the world does not make sense
as i very well could be in love
as i very well can soon be heartbroken
as i very soon should be drunk
as i can't find my favorite shirt
as i've decided that limerick week wont start till saturday
i have decided to give a
little space and a lot of love
to my heroes dead and gone.
a week of cover poems
everyday a different poem by a different person
an "influence" if you will.
i would encourage you to leave as a comment your favorite poem by whichever particular person on their particular day.
or something. i dont kow.
today's poet: jack kerouac.
it was his birthday yesterday.
i don't think i need any more biographical information here.
if you don't know who he is, you can look him up.
so, finally, here you go, jack. we all still love you.
"skid row wine"
i coulda done a lot worse than sit
in skid row drinkin wine
to know that nothing matters after all
to know there's no real difference
between rich and poor
to know that eternity is neither drunk
nor sober, to know it young
and be a poet
coulda gone into business and ranted
and believed that god was concerned
instead i squatted in lonesome alleys
and nobody saw me, just my bottle
and what they saw of it was empty
and i did it in cornfields & graveyards
to know that the dead dont make noise
to know that the cornstalks talk (among
one another with raspy old arms)
sittin in alleys diggin the neons
and watching cathedral custodians
wring out their rags neath the church steps
sittin and drinkin wine
and in railyards being divine
to be a millionaire & yet to prefer
curlin up with a poorboy of tokay
in a warehouse door, facing long sunsets
on railroad fields of grass
to know that the sleepers in the river
are dreaming vain dreams, to squat
in the night and know it well
to be dark solitary eye-nerve watcher
of the world's whirling diamond
10:51 a.m. - 2007-03-13
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