Pondering while listening to Jack Kerouac

Rain burning my brain
Cutting like the Knife
in the dead Cow
at the butcher shop

Slow, agony monster
Tearing pieces
In the midnight city air
Rank and bitter from
The dirt of the homeless
Poets

Walk straight on
Crooked sidewalks
Avoid the vomit pool
Left by Politician
Party boys as a sign
Of what is inside


City strokes my
Consciousness
Whipping out ideas
Along Times Square


Flashing fandango
Falling deep, the
Strangers capture false
Fury developed by
Grotesque neon
Merchants


This bottle hear
Whispers the words
Forget dreams which
Kill kind illusion
I am real and known
To you and your choir boys

I enter, lost in the sewer safety net, asleep

Comments

Anonymous said…
i like city strokes may consciousness

i'm fron NYC and I know just what you mean, it makes me alive.

wealth of laughter senryu

verification makes it really hard to comment. you'd get more comments if you turned it off. i had to do this several times to get it to work.
Paulog30 said…
Thanks and thanks, didn't know it was on.
Elizena said…
I've never been to New York, but I lived in Chicago for a bit. Even though I've since moved, it seems the big city lights have made their way here; the casinos, the big name stars, so much that make others feel alive just tires me out. The bright lights, the music and an occasional visit by Johnny Depp or Russell Crowe make me glad I live near a big city, but it's nice to be able to live on a street that is actually quiet by 10 p.m. I guess old age has a lot to do with it. LOL!
This was vivid and brought a city I've never seen alive in my head. Very well written. Be blessed.

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Paulog30 said…
Nice! Thanks Elizena. I am glad I could stir a wonderful visual image in your mind.