Collected poems
(Book)

Jack Kerouac, in his own words by Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell

Mexico City blues (242 choruses)

The scripture of the golden eternity

Book of blues: San Francisco blues ; Richmond Hill blues ; Bowery blues ; MacDougal Street blues ; Desolation blues ; Orizaba 210 blues ; Orlanda blues ; Cerrada Medellin blues

Pomes all sizes: Bus east ; Hitchhiker ; Neal in court ; On waking from a dream of Robert Fournier ; God ; Haiku Berkeley ; Poim ["Walking on water"] ; Various little pomes ; Two Dharma notes ; Gatha ; Beginning with a few haikus some of them addresses in the book ; "When you become enlightened" ; On ether ; Letter to Allen ; Mexico rooftop ; Mexican loneliness ; The last hotel ; Berkeley song in F major ; A sudden sketch poem ; Poem written in the Zoco Chico ; Three Tangier poems ; Tangier poem ; Poem ["Anyway the time has come to explain"] ; Flies ; Poem ["I could become a great grinning host"] ; How to meditate ; Buddha ; Poem ["I am God"] ; Haiku ["Came down from my"] ; My views on religion ; Lady ; Caritas ; Poem ["Old hornet me"] ; Lil poem on Louis Ferdinand Céline ; Skid Row wine ; The moon ; Poem ["Told him all about Minoan civilization"] ; The thrashing doves ; The sea-shroud ; My gang ; Pax ; Haiku ["The moon"] ; Prayer ; Poem ["You start off by suckin in"] ; Angel mine ; Perm ; Poems of the Buddhas of old ; Morphine ; Silly goofball pomes ; Pome ["Be me bespangled dotted-hat fool?"] ; 3 poems about titles of novels ; To Lou Little ; Airapetianz ; If I were Jesus, God ; Idiot ; Old Western movies ; Woman ; Hymn ; Goofball blues ; Goofball sillypomes ; Drunken scribbling poem ; Running through, Chinese poem song ; Sken 3 ; Cognac blues ; Beau Bébé ; The shack of desolation ; Poor sottish Kerouac ; Long Island Chinese poem rain ; Pome ["If I dont use the cork"] ; Pome on Doctor Sax ; A curse at the Devil

Old angel midnight

Desolation pops

Book of haikus

Uncollected poems. Observations ; America in the night ; Old love-light ; I tell you it is October! ; "I am my mother's son" ; Thinking of Thomas Wolfe on a winter's night ; Alabama, May 11, 1944 ; A translation from the French of Jean-Louis Incogniteau ; Psalms ; "God didn't make the world for satisfaction" ; Song ["I left New York"] ; Song: Fie my fum ; Pull my daisy ; Pull my daisy [alternative version] ; "He is your friend, let him dream" ; Visions of Doctor Sax ; The poems of the night ; Long dead's longevity ; "Someday you'll be lying" ; Daydreams for Ginsberg ; "Sight is just dust" ; Mindmatter ; A TV poem ; Heaven ; Sitting under tree number two ; To Harpo Marx ; "I / clearly / saw / the / skeleton / underneath" ; Rimbaud ; Sea ; Sept. 16, 1961 ; A pun for Al Gelpi ; To Edward Dahlberg ; A selection of uncollected haikus

Chronology.