Desolation Angels

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2013, alcohol, biography, books, compromise, death, identity, Jack Kerouac, life, loneliness, mother, reading, travelling, valley, Vietnam

                I have found Jack Kerouac
                     at last
                where I couldn’t find him
                in the narrative shifted of
                     the road
                or the too much spoke and
                awe of the bums or the
                     biographies
                of mother-tied and bottle compromise
                or drunken defence of Jeeps in
                     Vietnam
                there, there he is, ballooned
                valley-high and continental
                     plate
                left lonely for his piddling life
                and inexorable death in every
                     reach

Desolation Angels

but I still couldn’t finish reading
the book

^{————w}(O)rmholes_________________________________|—–

books wormhole: step
compromise wormhole: in desperation and worthless art
death wormhole: Dr Strange VII – the madness of Mordo
identity wormhole: H e a v e
life wormhole: dream 260713
loneliness wormhole: ‘blades / articulate all the lonely height / of the sky’
mother wormhole: the four whores of the apocalypse
reading wormhole: the lines are not that straight / after all
travelling wormhole: ha ha ha

4 thoughts on “Desolation Angels”

Leyla said:

March 14, 2015 at 5:56 am

great words..

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- m lewis redford said:
  
  March 14, 2015 at 9:55 am
  
  thank you, Leyla
  
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John said:

March 25, 2015 at 6:20 am

(I couldn’t finish reading the book either …..)

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- m lewis redford said:
  
  March 25, 2015 at 9:20 am
  
  {… or ‘On The Road’ (tried it twice); the only book I did read through was ‘The Dharma Bums’, but when I tried it again recently – I couldn’t finish it; it’s like: once you take the cap off it fizzes for awhile but quickly goes flat unless you read it in one gulp … much like Kerouac, in fact}
  
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