More like a first draft poem that you and your inebriated friends took turns writing. It is a mess but not as if a hoarder owns it. In this very eclectic bar Kerouac supposedly avoided meeting Henry Miller and instead decided to drink…a lot. My first stop, after tea tasting in Chinatown, was Vesuvio. This time I had to return the love even if it was conveniently at an old watering hole of his. I had been before but just in passing and failed to venture down the alley.

So when I left for San Francisco, Kerouac Alley was #1 on my list. I’d even like to think you can blame Kerouac for my tendency to write long lyrical run on sentences. Were they rebels against society? Did they break the rules of writing, cultural norms, dabble in drugs and live to rue the day? So I dove in head first and found myself intrigued, like so many others, by the Beatnik lifestyle and especially their love of travel whether it be from Big Sur, California or to Paris. We needed to learn what fueled their craft, where they hung out, with whom they hung out with. In second year creative writing we had to select a poet to mimic.

Jack Kerouac inspired my first published poem.

Jack kerouac rules for writers