Poem Written in a Lawn Chair (looking into a garden)

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Submissive to everything

Open and alert

This is how Kerouac

Set about composing life

Off and on the road

Debauched as

A bee in the pollen

Of a trumpet rose

With pen for proboscis

He scribbled everywhere

In his secret notebooks

In the midst of discovering

Life’s secret-most forms

And so too I have come

To a point in my 57^th year

Where I find my desktop

Littered about with folders

And files in a joyful mess

Overflowing all

Reasonable bounds

And I have hurried but lately

Strived to sketch the flow

Of spirits passing

Outside the doorway

In the streets below

And the shimmers of light

Discernable only to

The innermost I

As they have been cast 

Upon the eyelid’s wall

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This poem has a little back story which may worth mentioning. Yesterday my wife sent me an email which really sparked my interest.  It was a list of 30 writing tips put together by Jack Kerouac -- a few essential pointers for composing more compelling hipster prose.   And I found myself strongly agreeing with nearly everything Jack recommended, especially the first five items (set forth below) which in fact inspired me to write the preceding poem.

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form