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Jack Micheline

November 6th 1929 - February 27th 1998

 

CHASING JACK KEROUAC'S SHADOW 

The alabaster city gleams in the sunlight

I am on a bus going to Santa Rosa

Away from the stinking hotel

They tell me I am famous, like the Jerome cookies

Streets, poems, nuthouses, jails, paintings, con men and time

My twenty years of poems and paintings

stored away in houses and cellars

relentless with anger and love

I ponder at life and the world around me

The bus speeds on the highway going sixty

I am fifty-two, live alone, considered some mad freak genius

In reality I am a fucked up poet

who will never come to terms with the world

No matter how beautiful the flowers grow

No matter how children smile

No matter who blue is the bluest sky

The harsh realities of life, that life is mostly a put up job

The genius rain avoids us

The lone solitary soul that does her beautiful dance for

    all to see

I seek the genuine leaf blowing in the wind

The real person tapping a song whose melody

flows through rivers and time

The image that dances with stars

The sun that melts anger and harassment

Years spent begging and hustling

Carrying paintings on buses

Carrying mattresses through streets

Evictions, lost loves, hangovers, rheumatism, hemorrhoids

For a muse that rarely pays off

I must be mad, bewitched like a lost gambler

Down to my last bet with no carfare or candy

I am not subtle or charming  

 

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