Beatific south of the border …

… Jack Kerouac, the “poet of jazz” who found Nirvana in Mexico | AL DÍA News. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

After many visits, Kerouac decided to stay in Mexico DF. He lived in a muddy apartment, on the rooftop of a poor building in the “Colonia Roma”; there wasn’t any water or light, except for a candle that the writer used for meditating.