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2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

0 posted 2016-09-09 08:23 AM

when a party
For those who take the road ?
Who crossed Utah and Kentucky,
For those who have only an idea in mind,
Do not release the steering wheel
Or the accelerator pedal,
Those who look at the landscapes
Making striptease,
Those who sometimes sleep
In the middle of cactus,
Who eat sausages,
In small villages in the desert,
when a party
On the road 66 ?
For those who keep their dreams
Enlightened by neon,
For those who do not forget
That a road undresses us of everything.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2016-09-09 09:50 AM

Okay, I completely relate to this, Yann. I spent many years crossing the varied roads of America. Slept in the open, sometimes in alleys

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

2 posted 2016-09-09 02:41 PM

thanks Jerry for the comment, america is so vast, please if you don't mind, what job made you take the road ?

JerryPat2
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South Louisiana

3 posted 2016-09-09 03:28 PM

No job took me on the road, Yann, although I worked as a linotype operator for the most part. But I worked many different jobs from dishwasher to the linotype. I was born to ramble, I spent a couple of decades trying to find myself. I call them my two lost decades.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Elizabeth

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Minnesota

4 posted 2016-09-09 03:40 PM

Creative images here....I really liked the line about the strip teasing landscapes. Can't say I've ever thought of it like that before!

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth (09-10-2016 01:00 AM).]

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2016-09-10 12:49 PM

thanks jerry for "tipping" me, a great look on your life, and i am never sure years can be useless,( bad perhaps ?) , but we learn too of these "useless" years

yann

2islander2
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6 posted 2016-09-10 12:53 PM

thanks elizabeth, your comment pleased me, i consider with humility, that
if there is a good idea, i achieved my poem, I do what I can to be a "true" or may be not poet

Elizabeth

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7 posted 2016-09-10 12:59 PM

You are quite welcome! It should say "teasing" in my previous comment, not "reading." My phone auto corrected me and I didn't notice til now.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

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So. El Monte, California

8 posted 2016-09-10 06:40 AM

When I was young we traveled from state to state as my Dad went where the work was. This poem pretty much says it all, yann.

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

9 posted 2016-09-10 08:00 AM

hello, Ida, it seems to me that we take both the road, your memories talk to me, as america unveils its beauties and generous people

glad to read you as an "old friend"

yann

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