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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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This is a gritty town, gray, cold and dreary, I’m glad I’m only here just passing through. The locals have a smile they turn on out-of-towners like artificial light that has no warmth; they tell me of the bars where I can get hammered, and gorge on eating birds their special way, but I haven’t heard a single one say “Welcome” and I think I understand what has occurred. This place had to have been settled by the desperate, 19th century strugglers trying to survive by a lake that is quite cold and unforgiving, and then like all good talking monkeys they made the best they could of staying alive. Those views on their survival formed a baseline that they then passed on to all their kids, so now the descendents never realize that there are places where when the sun shines no one has to greet it with surprise. Please don’t mistake what I’ve been saying, they seem like honest folk who have it hard I see it in their ways and in their manners, I see it in the glitter in their eyes, maybe it’s unfair of me to share a snapshot of just the few short days that I’ve been here in a city where the wind blows like it’s on a mission and the people keep praying hard for Spring. ©2006 by icebox |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Well, I hope that you at least got to sample some of those Buffalo wings! They're to die for! ~ Mind you, if one were to eat copious amounts of them, the cholesterol could kill! I'm from Niagara Falls, Ontario. ~Practically a stone's throw away from Buffalo. Perhaps if you were to visit Buffalo when all the snow has melted, you'd find the people "warmer"!   EA |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
Yep...Been there, seen that The land where it snows simply because the wind is blowing A 1/3 of downtown abandoned (or so it seemed) a bar on every corner But I saw "Fish Frys" as being way more iconic than the famous wings And though I can get fried fish and a Makers Mark pretty much anywhere...there's something there I can't do long without |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox "maybe it’s unfair of me to share a snapshot of just the few short days that I’ve been here in a city where the wind blows like it’s on a mission and the people keep praying hard for Spring." I think many people in many places are praying hard for spring....even California! Travel safely! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
smile I was thinking somewhere along similar lines, but I'll save that for another day. But trust I understand, tough times shared makes for a certain clannish mentality. It's a dubious club, ain't it? I love you so much, I could just eat your brain.  (that's a compliment for folks who might be wondering!  ) |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Good, especially the ending. . . |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Some places, folks just dare you to live. The whole state of North Dakota's like that, something to do with the Russian heritage no doubt.... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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desert-spike Member
since 2006-02-01
Posts 194TX/USA |
That makes me think of my own home town. That makes, me simultaneously homesick, and glad I don't live there anymore. |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Mr. C., there are still a few buffalo around, I think....I hope. Best regards.......jo |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I like the feeling this one gave me...makes me feel glad to be in my own hometown |
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