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Sleeping by Big Sur

James K. Moran

Big Sur / credit: James Donovan
Big Sur / credit: James Donovan

I slept with a copy of Big Sur
by my pillow
a read
of a man charting
alcoholic decline

I have drunk too much
to remember my face
I have drunk too much
to remember the facts
I have drunk too much
and forgotten the race
here-there-get up-go-get-it-done

but woke beside the book
feeling good
and like doing nothing
at all
all day
until night fell again

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James K. Moran

James K. Moran’s poetry and fiction has appeared in bywords.ca, dig, The Rolling Darkness Revue 2010, Icarus, On Spec, Postscripts to Darkness 3, The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack and the Peter F. Yacht Club. In addition, more of Moran’s fiction pieces is forthcoming in the Tortured Souls anthology series. Moran has a novel forthcoming from Lethe Press. He lives in Ottawa, and has discovered blogging at http://jameskmoran.blogspot.ca/.

Author: James K. Moran Tags: Big Sur, Jack Kerouac Category: Poetry March 13, 2014

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