Subtle

That moment when
You find your boyhood heroes
Were not heroes
But just more drunks
Who'd talk your ear off in a bar
Before going outside
To make for themselves
A bed beneath the ground.

..............

For - Jack Kerouac
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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