Kerouac Was Right

“Let’s live suddenly without thinking.” eecummings

Let the thoughts stream, the senses open to the world, 

let there be light of day, clouds, trees, everything always

there each day always as like the first time we opened our

eyes dazzled by the impossible truth of existence, our home,

this world…why not take advantage of simple life the air

we breathe the songs we sing even the Blues are beautiful 

especially at night in a seedy bar down by the docks perfume

of sawdust and sour beer of sad hearts some call it home

not stuck in your heads of weary thoughts the dogs don’t care

neither do the other humans stuck in their own ruts on track

to the nowhere we all find ourselves at at the end…that’s why

now is the only time a gift a magic spell the universe somehow 

conjured…too much time wasted in speculation when the answer

is always in front of you like the wind we cannot see but can 

only feel it is no mystery because it’s the way it should be how

could it be any other way? Simplicity makes wise fools of us all

a man with a line in a stream waiting with minimal expectations,

a job well done let’s have a beer in celebration…all the mundane

joys we miss if we aren’t really there in the swing of things…that’s 

all Buddha was saying…he was just trying to help.

It’s all about bliss/ecstasy in a simple cup of tea in the aroma of

fresh bread and the scent of a rose..no one has come up with

anything better in all the soap operas stories and plots that

entertain for a moment and are forgotten just as quickly.

That’s why Buddha held up a flower.

That’s why his student smiled.