Innermoonlight

I stand on my head on Desolation Peak
And see that the world is hanging
Into an ocean of endless space
The mountains dripping rock by rock
Like bubbles in the void
And tending where they want—
That at night the shooting stars
Are swimming up to meet us
Yearning from the bottom black…
—But Mount Hozomeen
The most beautiful mountain I ever seen,
Does nothing but sit and be a mountain,
A mess of double pointed rock
Hanging pouring into space.

-Jack Kerouac, from Desolation Blues View Larger

I stand on my head on Desolation Peak

And see that the world is hanging

Into an ocean of endless space

The mountains dripping rock by rock

Like bubbles in the void

And tending where they want—

That at night the shooting stars

Are swimming up to meet us

Yearning from the bottom black…

—But Mount Hozomeen

The most beautiful mountain I ever seen,

Does nothing but sit and be a mountain,

A mess of double pointed rock

Hanging pouring into space.

-Jack Kerouac, from Desolation Blues



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