Where the Highway Ends (New Jersey)

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Open Poetry #15

Where the Highway Ends (New Jersey)

Lance McLove
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since 2001-07-17

Posts 8

0 posted 2001-08-22 07:48 PM

Where the Highway Ends (New Jersey)

If I ran away
to a different place
so far away from here,
(yes, leave without a trace),

could I later say
that it was worth the trip
as I throw back a beer
and bite my bottom lip?

It may be all the same
no matter where I go;
just a different name
Like a Bob Newhart show.

But there's nothing here to do
and there's nothing here to see.
The carnival is in town
but it really isn't me.

And the days are never new
and this place gives me the bends.
I think I'm going to drown
here, here where the highway ends.

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 2001-08-23 09:05 AM

Hm.. I hear that MissGypsiNess is on the road this summer... She passed through N.J. herself.. Gotta love where those highways take ya...

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-08-23 06:08 PM

But there's nothing here to do
and there's nothing here to see.
The carnival is in town
but it really isn't me.

And the days are never new
and this place gives me the bends.
I think I'm going to drown
here, here where the highway ends.

these lines capture the feeling of being trapped and dying a slow death in a place you don't want to be... very well done.

rwood
Member Elite

since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

3 posted 2001-08-25 11:17 AM

The angst of needing an outlet, an adventure. Know this well. But don't change your name, change your address. Go where your heart leads you. The drive for something different is very well expressed.

Sincerely,
Regina

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