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Ma has Gone to Frisco

Dreamed late June? 1953 by Jack Kerouac

photo of writer Jack Kerouac


MA HAS GONE TO FRISCO ahead of me and is staying in some beat hotel like the Cameo again---I'm terrified to rush up and save her, fearing she'll hate the city for it---

I'm in Lowell and am obliged to return to high school on Kirk Street which I do in the pristine sunny October or May morning but I'm late and walk up and down the corridors smiling realizing for the first time that I don't have to go to high school at all because I'm a great writer, in fact 3 years of H S has been enough and I will always say "I didnt even finish high school"---

No, whaling in the Caribean and going to Frisco is more important and I've got to hurry and get to Ma before she gets disappointed out there--I can see her however enjoying the white hills, blue sky---

--Jack Kerouac

EDITOR'S NOTES

I posted this dream because finding yourself back in school is a universal dream-theme, but realizing you're done, you can leave, you're a real artist now... that, sadly, is not universal.

SOURCE: p.99, Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac, expanded (2001) edition, City Lights Books. Date estimated from sequence. Title: Kerouac always capitalized a dream's first phrase as a working title, even if it didn't fit the dream as a whole.



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