Showing posts with label Circa 1993. photo Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circa 1993. photo Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2009

The Youth Hosteler


Seeing the world

Half on the cheap, the other half

Well, that's from daddy's keep.


Consuming the low-end experience

Say, where are the cheap eats?


Australian, German's and UK's reign,

in this mobile wannabe chic, subculture strain


Six months on the road and they've seen it all man

Multi-cultural wanderer, no pretentions, sticking it to man


Black Doc Martins, earings, she walks down Bohemia Street

Just one more cigarette please..


Let's cruise the thrift shops for some cool used clothes

Don't wanna let on the money my family's got back in Brisbane

Need that transient, worn in, (I'm no Yuppie) gritty stance


Really, it's the cafe's, bars and discos where it's at

Hey, let's go to that bar Vesuvio's,

Where Jack Kerouac drank himself to death


Amtrak, Greyhound bus pass, travelers cheques and overgrown backpacks

obligatory journals and jeans stone-washed.