the 1st Kerouac _working title

In the beginning

was

is the Word

and the Word—the beginning

the upon

neither Man-u-fractured

“time”,

nor unnecessary

“once”.
 
 
 

The

beginning

(a dark & stormy night)

of

–His·story—

…

God’s.

…

the Big Guy, you know,

your upstairs border

–the fella that barters in place of bucks

…

(you might have seen him on TBS)

but however it goes, He’s

a righter.

(I role, sure, but it explains the rent situation)

Righting

(and re-Righting)

“tome”

U-ni-Verse

that’s

U in Verse, to be precise

–wherein the lot of U’s are graphemes

characters linked into words

(mostly geographic)

excepting the compound verbs families compose, and

the repeating technique generations braid by epic chapter

…

that’s epoch chapter, but am I repeating myself?

Events cribbed on The Wrist

Happiness bolded and

underlines

Natural Disasters a crumpled ball with which He’s disgusted,

tragedies

Accidents

just Cross* Outs,

&

death the Red Pen that edits

–courtesy Lou Cipher Ink, a

P.O.D. outfit whose contracts bear a certain amount of scrutinizing,

fraught

~as they are~

in coded legalese.

 ©Karen Robiscoe

artwork by Diane Robiscoe

* subject to terms