The Denver Beat Poetry Driving Tour,

goes back to discover Kerouac, Cassady

and Ginsberg running together across

the Civic Center Park lawn during that

torrid, tremendous, Benzedrine season;

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living at the Colburn Hotel on smoke,

liquor and pills, downing dream beat

discussion in the corner of the bar

downstairs, dying under the bright,

hero lights of Sonny Lawson Baseball field;

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running after women and legends of jazz,

mingling near decrepit old mansions

at Cassady's Curtis Park among cat calls,

curses, high pitched screams and bawdy,

feline laughter while a six year old

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pleading for money, pleading for his father,

watches the clock on the department store,

sends letters to a friend from reformatory,

and a fanciful writer pays an advance

for a house that was never a home.