Kerouac Dharma Bums Cut-Up # 4

Kerouac Dharma Bums Cut-Up # 4 


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Allen Ginsberg appears naked on a cloud with a McDonald's crown singing about Disney World, the American Dream and the joy of flushing toilets.


I pray Allen does not hit on me. I had a bad day and wish the Beats would leave me in peace.


Allen says, "You know why I am here?"


I say, " Burroughs wants another Kerouac Cut-Up?"


Goldberg says, "You bet your cute bottom he wants one ASAP. I am warning you because Burroughs will be coming soon with his shotgun."


Goldberg disappears to what sounds like Cheech and Chong singing a Frank Sinatra song in a septic tank.


I curse the day I was born.


Depressed I get to work as words from the Dharma Bums flutter down from the sky like confetti. I gather the word's, shake them in a hat, and throw them up in the air. The words land as they appear below.


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My forgotten song 

I have fallen 

lost in the stars

drifting across 

water woods

awakening 

celestial vapor

reflections 

lost in wilderness 

laughing across 

lakes 

rosy water

In pieces of

forgotten songs


I see a vision 

crapulous civilization

Celestial creatures 

drink in alleys 

lunatics find 

wisdom in wine 

suffering 

children Lonely 

soft sands of the past 

fall in love 

dangerous lawns 

well to do houses 

television sets 

machines of the world 

look in their heads 

for reason

Or the face 

of a long-dead relative

Forgetting the 

silence of the sea


Love explosives 

silly rockets

millions of young 

Americans 

drifting

wandering 

college vapor

blow up campuses 

Non-identity 

grooming schools 

Blow up televisions 

Blow up civilization 

Free the dream 

blow heads 

reason

off with 

love

Finding 

nirvana 

in outer inner

channel fluid 

belly waters


I hear Zen Lunatics 

Passover in the sky

The Dharma Bums 

go prowling 

practicing kindness 

Loving all creatures 

My meditations

dark mysterious 

secret origins of love

forgetting myself 

sea ecstasy of the stars 

Locating silence 

golden eternity clouds

Mind awakening

nirvana found 

in being 

nothing 


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God I Love old railroad gloves


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God I Love old railroad gloves


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God I Love old railroad gloves


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The Dharma Bums Cut-Up was compiled under duress by David Penn Trinley Arndt on May 11, 2022. Fearing Burroughs's shotgun or being hit on by Ginsberg I worked fast and then fell asleep exhausted sitting on my toilet snoring in golden slumbers.

 

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© David Penn Trinley Arndt 2022

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