• Re: Poem / Jack Kerouac

    From Will Dockery@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 01, 2026 17:28:37

    Poem

    Anyway the time has come to explain
    the Golden Eternity
    and how the iridescent paraphernalia of radiating candles
    ceases
    when mentation ceases
    because I know what it's like to die,
    to cease mentating, one day I died,
    I fainted actually, I was stooping smelling
    strapping flowers in the cosmos yard
    of my mother's cozy flower house
    in Auffinsham Shire, in Queens,
    and stood up fast taking deep breath,
    blood rushed from head, next thing I knew
    woke up flat on my back in grassy sun
    and had been out fine minutes.

    And I had seen the Golden Eternity.
    The Lamb was alone with the Lamb.
    The Babe was alone with the Baby Lamb.
    The Shroud was alone with the Golden Shroud.

    I was alone with God, who
    is God, who was me,
    who was All,
    he stood high on a hill
    overlooking Mexico City
    radiating messages
    out of a white Tiot

    - Jack Kerouac, 1958

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