east river blues...

 Jack Kerouac was born on this day in 1922. Happy Birthday Jack! When this photo was snapped, he was 31 years old.

“Jack Kerouac at Staten Island Ferry wharf, we used to wander docksides under Manhattan’s bridges & thru truck parking lots along East River singing rawbone Blues, Leadbelly’s ”Black Girl” or Eli Eli, chanting Poe’s ”Annabel Lee” & shouting Hart Crane’s ”O Harp & Altar of the Fury fused!” or ”Atlantis” to Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic spanned above. Time of his Doctor Sax & The Subterraneans, Burroughs was in town, up from Mexico, New York Fall 1953. (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg)