Jack Kerouac Time Poems

  • 1.
    I lie on my back at midnight
    hearing the marvelous strange chime
    of the clocks, and know it's mid-
    night and in that instant the whole
    ...
  • 2.
    -lights out-
    fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
    ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
    the gland inside of my brain discharging
    ...
  • 3.
    I keep falling in love
    with my mother,
    I dont want to hurt her
    -Of all people to hurt.
    ...
  • 4.
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    Did I create that sky? Yes, for, if it was anything other than a conception in my mind I wouldnt have said 'Sky'-That is why I am the golden eternity. There are not two of us here, reader and writer, but one, one golden eternity, One-Which-It-Is, That-Which- Everything-Is.

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Total 4 Time Poems by Jack Kerouac

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