small towns in texas are like time warps into another age
howdy and y’all, big hair on the ladies, big mustaches on the men
pickup trucks and farmers sitting in gas stations talking about fertilizer and breach births
everyone knows the sheriff as he does his daily rounds
syrupy thick accents and raised eye brows at a stranger stopping in
the big city is a daydream for the young, a nightmare for the older folks
most of them will never leave
they’ve got all they need and the ground beneath their feet was the ground beneath their parents and their’s before them
it seems so quaint
an idyllic snapshot of a former age
a norman rockwell painting hanging in a doctor’s office
oil derricks and long winding roads
herds of cattle, with a few horses standing at the fence watching the cars drive by
welcome to muenster, population 1504
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You know Muenster is a neighbor to my town. It’s very different, a German town. I have many stories from there. Very freeing traveling the small towns of Texas. Good poem.
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thank you. it was a nice road trip filled with many inspirations
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Welcome
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Love this Mike, makes me want to dig out the grapes of wrath again.
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yes! that was my thought as i drove through the towns. even kept an eye out for an overturned turtle in the road.
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Haha, my favourite book of all time.
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Very powerful. The kind that stays with you the rest of your life.
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An universe away from my own world. Seriously.
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where is your world? i imagine there is something similar close
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Northeast of North America. Tonnes of French people lol
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That is basically a universe away
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Yup lol
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This basically describes most of Alaska. (except like Anchorage and Fairbanks… mmm and maybe Juneau)
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Small towns around the world I bet. I’d like to see them all.
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Road trip??
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Maybe
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It’s so funnily, funnily good that I want to cry out of something really alive. 😐
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I think that’s good. Muenster is all too real. A German town up by the border of Oklahoma.
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I should come to Texas sometime. Someday.
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It’s alright I suppose. I love Dallas/Ft Worth. More than I thought I did. Dallas plays in big to my actual books.
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Everybody should have one place whose magnificence makes a personal sense to the spirit. I’m yet to find mine. I mean I have moments that have a warm and private aesthetic value but places are more constant since they exist in actuality.
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I always thought Chicago was my spirit city until recently.
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Do you mind me asking why?
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I’m from Illinois. but is becomes cobweb filled memories now. I go to downtown Dallas daily. It was a gradual takeover.
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Cool. Have a great life!
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