Jack Kerouac

Astute, young poet

1            I never realized then what a good time I was
2            having
3        smoking cheap cigars,in my shorts and undershirt.
5            proud of my barrel chest
6            and my biceps
7            and my youth, my legs,
8            "baby, look at my legs! ever seen legs like that?"
10          prancing up and down in that hotel
11          room.
12          I was giving her a show and she just sat
13          there smoking cigarettes.
15          she was nasty, a looker but a nasty
16          looker.I knew that she would say something
18          vicious but I would laugh at her.
20          she had seen me make a whole barfull
21          of men back down one
22          night.


23          each night was about the same, I'd put on
24          my show for her, I'd tell her what a great brain I had.


26          "you're so fucking smart, what're you doing living in a hole like this?"


28          "I'm just resting up, baby, I haven't made my move yet ..."


30          "bullshit! you're an asshole!"


31          "what?"


32          "you're an asshole!"


33          "why, you wasted whore, I'll rip you in half!"


34          then we'd go at it, swearing loudly, throwing
35          things, breaking things,
36          the phone ringing from the desk downstairs,
37          the other roomers banging on the walls
38          and me laughing, loving it,
39          picking up the phone, "all right, all right,
40          I'll keep her quiet ..."


41          putting the phone down, looking at
42          her, "all right, baby, come on over here!"


43          "go to hell! you're disgusting!"


44          and I was, red-faced, cigarette holes burnt in my undershirt,
46          4-day beard, yellow teeth, broken toenails,
47          grinning madly I'd move toward
48          her, glancing at the pull-down bed, I'd move
49          toward her saying, "hike your skirt up I want to see more leg!"


51          I was one bad dude. she stayed 3 years then I moved on to the
53          next
54          one.

            (the other day im bang-up steward in the t. room-
Boeing)


55          the first one never lived with another
56          man again.
57          I cured her of that.