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 what gets lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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