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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Born in 1922, the poet and novelist Jack Kerouac is said to have coined the term "Beat generation," describing the down-and-out status of himself and his peers during the post-war years...
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Orlanda Blues [45th Chorus]

 
by Jack Kerouac

There's a middlewestern prurience
about Greeks.—

Your little earth-nut, O potato
war, riots mama dears around
  papap's paternal root



  S i l k y b o o 


( o o ! )

        Found the Sound






From Book of Blues. Copyright © 1995 by Jack Kerouac. Reprinted by permission of SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
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