Dear Fans of Jack Kerouac

You are provably insane. Kerouac was not a good poet. He wasn’t even a poet. He didn’t write poetry. He wrote prose. It’s not poetry if you take regular prose and break the lines after every few words.

Look how easy
It is to do
That. Check me
Out. I’m the voice
Of a
Generation.

No matter what you call it, his writings are not deep or meaningful. They’re limp, pretentious, and incoherent. They’re devoid of any insight or beauty. Kerouac was a borderline sociopath who had an extremely tenuous grasp on the English language. He lowered the standards of the written word and inspired the beat movement, a culture of half-assed, conceded art house urchins suffering from delusions of artistic grandeur. We, as a species, are worse off for having him.

Your opinions no longer matter,
Nicko