IF THIS IS OCTOBER - IT MUST BE JACK KEROUAC

I read this poem, among others, at a few bars tonight. A final Beat wrap-up of the few remaining hipsters still in Lowell.  A lot of Jack's fans don't understand the depth of Jack's feelings for Catholicism. There are reasons why some hipsters were beat. It had to do with a lot of things, but they truly wept for their brothers and sisters. They had come off WWII, and knew what man was capable of doing and of tolerating. They wept because, they too, were human beings. I can see Saint Michael sharpening  his sword, aware of the deed he must perform.  This year, see Jack as that Catholic School Boy; not the man consumed by his demons.

WHY ANGELS CRY

... for Jack Kerouac

No one cries

as long

or as hard-

As a wounded Angel.

No one bleeds

  as deep

or so red-

As a wounded Angel.

so:

St. Michael

Waits.

Listening to his brothers

Sing.