beat gossip

Apparently Kurt Vonnegut's son 
Mark once almost had to fight 
Jack Kerouac when he (M)
walked in on an impromptu
and abortive poker game at
Vonnegut's (K) house. He
(M) wore a beard, work shirt
and jeans, so Jack assumed
he was one of his many
misguided followers.

"You think you understand
me? You don't understand
me" Kerouac spouted. "Want
to fight about it?" 

Thankfully, Kerouac 
sat down to grouse 
about not being 
understood 

before any wrestling 
match could break out. 
Good thing too, as Mark 
was an accomplished 
wrestler at school. 
 
Mark later asked dad. 
who that guy was.
It turned out Mark 
had never read any 
Kerouac.So

Jack
was probably right, 
as he probably always was, 
about not being understood. 
How could you understand
a guy like that? Jack, Kurt,
Mark, or anybody