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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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