Backroads ride here exactly what I love
unexpected life you see on the road:
Ellenville, New York as one example:
Hassidic camps, gun shops, a diner with a sign in front
Work Hard, Stay Humble, often a town
I can imagine living Cochecton, New York the name
an aboriginal word for Low Land, unexpected
beauty lunch in Honesdale, Pennsylvania
where we brought Noah to an adoption proceeding
35 years ago waitress Lou said her favorite
lunch was Angus Sliders and Shanghai salad
and they were perfect and then we got into Scranton
coal and railroads and 77,000 people photogenic
blonde mayor named Paige wearing a bright yellow jumpsuit
opened the event for the Jane Jacobs book party
and then, two people in the Lackawanna
Train Station Hotel where we’re staying, in the bar. Our
waitress Marie who said ask for a martini hold the vermouth
and you’ll get twice the Vodka. Single mother of an 11
year old girl who wants to be on Broadway. She was
Annie in Annie. And later, Trump supporter
Mike, many generation Scrantonian, lives with his mother,
he works for the Department of Commerce,
Mike who had various theories about Biden
and the Communist mayor of New York City,
Mike, who, when I asked if he’d write a poem for a project
I’m working on Mike said Absolutely Yes.
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