Post by johnalsop on Mar 3, 2008 8:06:30 GMT -5
Forget about indoor rowing,
I know where I am going.
Just counting down the days here
to when I bust out of my personal glacier.
I'm heading South!
to sunburnt asphalt parking lots,
national sink trap,
dream dumpster
pentacostal purgatorium
an air conditioned paradise set about
with palm trees, peanut stands,
fire ants and topless truck stops.
Vasectomy reversal! the billboards shriek,
and the 13 foot gator waits at exit 352
by the Don Garlits Drag Museum.
Yes, I'm heading down ninety five-o
gonna find me Terry Schiavo
whose resurrection is long overdue.
One would never know
that behind the strip malls
rivers flow
Withlacoochee, Weeki Wachee
Okwahalla, Rainbow
where once the vanished seminole
watched alligators roll
and gathered turtles
stacked high and low.
the alligators wink torpidly
as our paddles whisper by
do the spirits still linger
in the cypress swamps?
Osceola, are you watching?
or just waiting?
Cheers JA --
I know where I am going.
Just counting down the days here
to when I bust out of my personal glacier.
I'm heading South!
to sunburnt asphalt parking lots,
national sink trap,
dream dumpster
pentacostal purgatorium
an air conditioned paradise set about
with palm trees, peanut stands,
fire ants and topless truck stops.
Vasectomy reversal! the billboards shriek,
and the 13 foot gator waits at exit 352
by the Don Garlits Drag Museum.
Yes, I'm heading down ninety five-o
gonna find me Terry Schiavo
whose resurrection is long overdue.
One would never know
that behind the strip malls
rivers flow
Withlacoochee, Weeki Wachee
Okwahalla, Rainbow
where once the vanished seminole
watched alligators roll
and gathered turtles
stacked high and low.
the alligators wink torpidly
as our paddles whisper by
do the spirits still linger
in the cypress swamps?
Osceola, are you watching?
or just waiting?
Cheers JA --