Jack Kerouac. On the road (№ 414057)

What is the Mississippi River? - A block washed by a rainy night, light slaps from the sleepy shores of Missouri, dissolution, running the tide along the eternal channel, a tribute to brown foams, wandering along endless doles, trees and dams, further down, further, past Memphis, Greenville, Evdora, Vicksburg, Natches, Port Allen and past Port Orleans, and past Port Delta, past Potash, Venice and the Great Bay of Night, and away.