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PIC by Jack Kerouac

CONTENTS


1. Me and Grandpa
2. What Happened
3. Aunt Gastonia's House
4. Brother Come To Fetch Me
5. Some Argufyin
6. I Go Thu the Window
7. We Come to Town
8. The Bus Go Up North
9. First Night in New York
10. How Slim Lost Two Jobs in One Day
11. Packin for Californy
12. Times Square and the Mystery of Television
13. The Ghost of the Susquehanna
14. How We Finally Got to Californy


1. ME AND GRANDPA

AIN'T NEVER NOBODY LOVED ME like I love myself,
cept my mother and she's dead. (My grandpa, he's
so old he can remember a hunnerd years back but
what happened last week and the day before, he
don't know.) My pa gone away so long ago ain't
nobody remember what his face like. My brother,
ever' Sunday afternoon in his new suit in front of
the house, out on that old road, and grandpa and
me just set on the porch rockin and talkin, but my
brother paid it no mind and one day he was gone
and ain't never been back.
Grandpa, when we was alone, said he'd ten' the
pigs and I go mend the fence yonder, and said, "I
seed the Lawd come thu that fence a hunnerd
years ago and He shall come again." My Aunt
Gastonia come by buttin and puffin said that it
was all right, she believed it too, she'd seen the
Lord more times than they could ever count, and
hallelujahed and hallelujahed, said "While's all
this the Gospel word and true, little Pictorial Re-
view Jackson" (that's me) "must go to school to
learn and read and write," and grandpa looked at
her plum in the eye like if'n to spit tobacco juice in
it, and answered, "Thass awright wif me," 'ess like
that, "but that ain't the Lawd's school he's goin' to
and he shall never mend his fences."
So I went to school, and came on home from