unsettled

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    unsettled

    i showed up on a bus by myself
    when the doors slid open a better version of myself emerged
    i breathed in the air of montana
    exhaled the stale air of l.a. sprawl

    mountains i discovered, mostly from afar
    southern comfort
    i discovered on a more intimate level
    drinking and smoking and making out with hippieish boys
    and older reprobates
    i was living a willie nelson song except whiskey makes me sick

    the summer was so long and so quick
    everything happened in seconds and eons
    i wanted to hold every experience close, examine each one for revelations
    while trying to escape what i learned

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    HarverTomsson commented on unsettled

    10-29-2009

    Wisdom gleaned from impulse usually breeds ennui and vapid inattention. Loved the line: "the summer was so long and so quick," you really were with the cowboys!

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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