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JACK KEROUAC

HE WAS BORN IN MASSACHUSSETTS, U.S


HE WAS AN AMERICAN NOVELIST AN POET
HIS STYLE WAS INFLUENTCED BY OF JAZZ
OCTOBER IN THE RAILROAD EARTH
THERE WAS A LITTLE ALLEY IN SAN FRANCISCO BACK OF LONG LEFT EAST
THE SOUTHERN
AND MEANINGS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND TRY THAT
PACIFIC STATION AT THIRD AND TOWNSEND IN REDBRICKNOW ALL THEY DO IS
OF DROWSY LAZY
STAND THERE SPITTING IN THE BROKEN GLASS
AFTERNOONS WITH EVERYBODY AT WORK IN OFFICES SOMETIMES FIFTY IN ONE
IN THE AIR YOU FEEL
AFTERNOON AGAINST ONE WALL AT THIRD AND
THE IMPENDING RUSH OF THEIR COMMUTER FRENZY AS HOWARD AND HERES ALL
SOON THEYLL BE
THESE MILLBRAE AND SAN CARLOS NEAT-NECKTIED
CHARGING EN MASSE FROM MARKET AND SANSOME PRODUCERS AND
BUILDINGS ON FOOT
COMMUTERS OF AMERICA AND STEEL CIVILIZATION
AND IN BUSES AND ALL WELL-DRESSED THRU RUSHING BY WITH SAN
WORKINGMAN FRISCO OF
FRANCISCO CHRONICLES AND GREEN CALL-BULLETINS
WALKUP ?? TRUCK DRIVERS AND EVEN THE POOR NOT EVEN ENOUGH
GRIME-BEMARKED THIRD
TIME TO BE DISDAINFUL.
STREET OF LOST BUMS EVEN NEGROS SO HOPELESS AND

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