RKS Literature: The Lights of Christmas Will Not Save America (Jack Kerouac)

“….all you see is marshes and great black distances of night and far off, on hills, the little communities with Christmas lights in their windows blearing red, blearing green, blearing blue, suddenly sending pangs through me and I think, ‘Ah America, so big, so sad, so black, you’re like the leafs of a dry summerContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Lights of Christmas Will Not Save America (Jack Kerouac)”

RKS Literature: On the Bum Again (Jack Kerouac)

“And since I’m well and on the bum again & ain’t got nothing else to do, but roam, long faced, the real America, with my unreal heart, here I am eager and ready to be a big busted nose scullion or dishwasher on the old scoff scow s’long as I can buy my next fancyContinue reading “RKS Literature: On the Bum Again (Jack Kerouac)”

RKS Literature: A Hot Time at the El Carrido Per Motel (Jack Kerouac)

“Deni had big plans for what was going to happen at the hotel, which was the El Carrido Per to Motpaotta California potator hotel as I say with potted palmettos and seamen inside and also hot-rod champion sons of aircraft computators of Long Beach, the whole general and dismal California culture a palpable hangout forContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Hot Time at the El Carrido Per Motel (Jack Kerouac)”