Kerouac

01Oct09

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, [...]

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Summer Plans

02May08

Sitting here in the student center for the last time this semester, and considering I don’t have homework (studying for exams doesn’t count)…
I’ve been thinking through the kinds of things I want to do over the summer so I don’t completely waste the nearly four months of freedom I have from the toils of college [...]

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Snake by D.H. Lawrence

03Apr08

A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there. In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before
me.
He reached down from a fissure [...]

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