Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Jack Kerouac: A Manifesto

don’t wait for words – sketch memories
of work money love sex art and holiness
about dreaming and the immensity of it

be alone sometimes remember
to breathe – like a jazz musician
breathe confess and sing yourself

write what conscious art would censor
until you are empty and your heart breaks
you will be nothing and perfect in emptiness

you don’t know what’s going to happen
nobody knows besides that we’re all
gonna die and the loneliness of it

everything is holy it is not even happening
you and I and the stars and the earth
and the father we never found will be okay

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