Kerouac Didn't Live Long Enough

[mnaz]

What if he wasn't such a drunk?
What if he lived another 33 years?
Would it change anything?
Change the universe?

He was there when it changed,
when the universe went up for sale.
He was there when infinite views
had prices put on their heads.

[saw]

I do think about stuff like that ,,,what if so and so had lived longer
and of course there is no answer to those questions, and maybe
their mark remains a deeper cut having had it all play out just the way it did
but one thinkg that is for sure, when you change the game expect backlash
Dali, Kerouac, Hendrix bucked the conventional....Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Carlin
and we were lucky to have them..... Huxley. Burroughs, Coltrane, Miles Davis
genius can get too close to the sun at times

[still.trucking]

He was there when infinite views
had prices put on their heads.

good capture

I try not to think too much about the old fat man on the couch watching television with his mother. Jack the patriot.

[mtmynd]

I do think about stuff like that ,,,what if so and so had lived longer
and of course there is no answer to those questions, and maybe
their mark remains a deeper cut having had it all play out just the way it did
but one thinkg that is for sure, when you change the game expect backlash
Dali, Kerouac, Hendrix bucked the conventional....Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Carlin
and we were lucky to have them..... Huxley. Burroughs, Coltrane, Miles Davis
genius can get too close to the sun at times

Well done, Mark! Especially fond of your last line, "genius can get too close to the sun at times".

So true... so fucking true. The payment one pays for breaking away from the norm.

[mnaz]

I keep thinking of Wireman (and the Doors...) "Break on through..." There's always a backlash. Doesn't matter. Evolution of mind continues. (Even if it ends up being less than a speck in the universe...)

[mnaz]

He lived just long enough.

[mtmynd]

He lived just long enough.

Correct.

[still.trucking]

“Isn't it pretty to think so?”

Kerouac was a good Catholic. Suicide was not an option for him. He lived as long as he could stand. I think about him as a virtual suicide. You know what pisses me off about these mindless rambles of mine is that I can't remember what this thread was about!
Oh yeah, now I remember.

He was there when infinite views
had prices put on their heads.

Trying to get my head around the concept that he lived just long enough. I am just grateful for his work in life.

Spalding Gray lived too long.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015 ... iver-sacks