Kerouac's Icebox Haiku

Jack Kerouac, Native of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1922 - 1969

This is my favorite among Jack's many "Western" haikus. It conjures a vivid shared experience, with a subtle metaphysical undercurrent. I'm pulling this from his Scattered Poems, City Lights, 1971.

Missing a kick
at the icebox door.
It closed anyway.