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Thursday, April 10, 2008
National Poetry Month - Rose Pome
Bookseller Jesse L. submitted the following poem from Jack Kerouac:
ROSE POME
I'd rather be thin than famous,
I dont wanta be fat,
And a woman throws me outa bed
Callin me Gordo, & everytime
I bend
to pickup
my suspenders
from the davenport
floor I explode
loud huge grunt-o
and disgust every one
in the familio
I'd rather be thin than famous
But I'm fat
Paste that in yr. Broadway show.
--
This poem can be found in The Portable Jack Kerouac, published by Penguin 2007 here and Penguin in 1996 here.
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