- Non-Erotic Poetry
- THE FOUND GENERATION
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"This is nothing but a beat generation." - Jack Kerouac
Before he found his beat,
Kerouac called his American generation
a 'found generation,'
mistaking his own compassion and inspiration
for the realities of the time
He didn't realize
we were yet to come:
after the U.S.S.R., McCarthy,
disco, glam-rock, Bob Dylan, and air-raid drills
We are advanced, barbaric
artistic and unstoppable
mellow as doves
indestructible as cockroaches;
"Nirvana" was our great depression
our great war between Tupac and Biggie
We are terribly over-educated
and by world standards: rich,
and we're free of the imperialistic obsessions:
swallowed in the thrills of internationalism,
free-thought free-enterprise
confidence and modernity
But, at heart, I'm still a dharma bum
poor and free
still beat
- COMMENTS
buttersover 12 years agoit continues to pull me in, drive me along, take me on its trip - i must have hit four accidentally and it was surely a five all along.
buttersover 14 years agohaving come across Kerouac's dharma bums about two weeks ago, and mentioning it to another member at Lit, to read this piece was another happy coincidence! Your work has so many pertinent references to stuff I am familiar with, or at least have made brief aquaintance with, that it is wonderfully accessible to this reader.
I intend to read everything you have. :)
lorencinoover 14 years agoThis poem was mentioned in today's New Poetry Recommendations in the Poetry Feedback & Discussion forum.[
