Cherson!
Cherson!
You aint just whistlin
Dixie, Sea –
Cherson! Cherson!
We calcimine fathers
here below!
Kitchen lights on –
Sea Engines from Russia
seabirding here below –
When rocks outsea froth
I’ll know Hawaii
cracked up and scramble
up my doublelegged cliff
to the silt of
a million years –
Shoo– Shaw—Shirsh
Go on die salt light
You billion yeared
rock knocker
Gavroom
Seabird
Gabroobird
Sad as wife & hill
Loved as mother & fog
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Sea! Osh!
Where’s yr little Neppytune
tonight?
Excerpt from Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur by Jack Kerouac. 1962, Penguin Books, New York, N.Y.
