The Bastard Children of Dharma Bumsare ‘sculped poems, ’ essentially erasure poems without theerased lines, taken from each chapter of Jack Kerouac'sThe Dharma Bums. I manipulate the lines, punctuation, and in some cases, the tense of a word, changing breaking to break, for an example, but otherwise the wordswithin each poem are as they fall within Kerouac’s Novel and other poe