Long arm gendarme
My mistake namaste
Backpack bivouac
On the Road with Kerouac
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Brilliant stars, silent nights
Fireflies, Northern Lights
Mountain streams, fresh air
Fall asleep anywhere
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Small town, take a chance
Pig roast, barn dance
Allemande left!  Do-si-do!
Spontaneity here we go!
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Long arm gendarme
My mistake namaste
Backpack bivouac
On the Road with Kerouac
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Beat Zen's hey-day
Doing things our own way
Nonconformity, anything goes
Kerouac-Ginsburg-Burroughs
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Shot to pieces, picking skin
Benzedrine, adrenaline
Don't forget the Phenergan
Notify our next of kin
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Long arm gendarme
My mistake namaste
Backpack bivouac
On the Road with Kerouac
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© 2019 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved
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Poetry notes:
7/14/2019
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Poetry form:  Rhyme
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"The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of materialism , explicit portrayals of the human condition and experimentation with drugs...In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements." -Wikipedia: Beat Generation