By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
BENEATH THE BIXBY BRIDGE
Beautified Kerouac
lost his mind
in a cabin beneath the Bixby Bridge
Sleeper waves
wash the grey matter up
onto beaches from Big Sur to Mendocino
A bottle
beaten against rocky coastline
mouthed into foam
by generations of parrots
trained to throw original voices
into Golden Gate into Bay
for crackers
Author note: Jack Kerouac is the acclaimed father of the Beat Generation and writer of the novel, “On the Road.”