Copyright © 1959 by Jack Kerouac

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       Published simultaneously in Canada Printed in the United States of America

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.

      Mexico City blues / Jack Kerouac.

      p. cm.

      eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9568-5

      I. Title.

      PS3521.E735M4 1990

      813’.54—dc20 90-2748

      Grove Press

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      MEXICO CITY BLUES

       MEXICO CITY BLUES

      NOTE

      I want to be considered a jazz poet

      blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam

      session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses;

      my ideas vary and sometimes roll from

      chorus to chorus or from halfway through

      a chorus to halfway into the next.

       1st Chorus

      Butte Magic of Ignorance

      Butte Magic

      Is the same as no-Butte

      All one light

      Old Rough Roads

      One High Iron

      Mainway

      Denver is the same

      “The guy I was with his uncle was

      the governor of Wyoming”

      “Course he paid me back”

      Ten Days

      Two Weeks

      Stock and Joint

      “Was an old crook anyway”

      The same voice on the same ship

      The Supreme Vehicle

      S. S. Excalibur

      Maynard

      Mainline

      Mountain

      Merudvhaga

      Mersion of Missy

       2nd Chorus

      Man is not worried in the middle

      Man in the Middle

      Is not Worried

      He knows his Karma

      Is not buried

      But his Karma,

      Unknown to him,

      May end –

      Which is Nirvana

      Wild men

      Who kill

      Have Karmas

      Of ill

      Good men

      Who love

      Have Karmas

      Of dove

      Snakes are Poor Denizens of Hell

      Have come surreptitioning

      Through the tall grass

      To face the pool of clear frogs

       3rd Chorus

      Describe fires in riverbottom

      sand, and the cooking;

      the cooking of hot dogs

      spitted in whittled sticks

      over flames of woodfire

      with grease dropping in smoke

      to brown and blacken

      the salty hotdogs,

      and the wine,

      and the work on the railroad.

      $275,000,000,000.00 in debt

      says the Government

      Two hundred and seventy five billion

      dollars in debt

      Like Unending

      Heaven

      And Unnumbered Sentient Beings

      Who will be admitted –

      Not-Numberable –

      To the new Pair of Shoes

      Of White Guru Fleece

      O j o!

      The Purple Paradise

       4th Chorus

      Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollars

      He was Tight

      Frog waits

      Till poor fly

      Flies by

      And then they got him

      The pool of clear rocks

      Covered with vegetable scum

      Covered the rocks

      Clear the pool

      Covered the warm surface

      Covered the lotus

      Dusted the watermelon flower

      Aerial the Pad

      Clean queer the clear

      blue water

      AND THEN THEY GOT HIM

      The Oil of the Olive

      Bittersweet taffies

      Bittersweet cabbage

      Cabbage soup made right

      A hunk a grass

      Sauerkraut let work

      in a big barrel

      Stunk but Good

      

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