"anniston" poems - Hello Poetry

what is death? a middle-aged man in a volvo, collecting payments and favors? i met him once on his road trip from new york to california. i imagined death streaking across america, the way the ground shakes and swallows its people. i didn't ask him anything. i was afraid of his answers but he keeps files on every living being and sorts through them when he gets bored, picking people off like flies. i figured he had heard about the likes of me before. is death the object of a mid-life crisis for a god who got a little too close to the sun and got his feelings hurt? maybe that is the answer after all. he left me at a truck stop off the interstate in anniston, alabama. i didn't catch his name, but i think we'll be introduced again real soon.

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Dec 17, 2011

Dec 17, 2011 at 6:39 PM UTC

scott-swanger

anniston, alabama (what is death?)

what is death? a middle-aged man in a volvo, collecting payments and favors? i met him once on his road trip from new york to california. i imagined death streaking across america, the way the ground shakes and swallows its people. i didn't ask him anything. i was afraid of his answers but he keeps files on every living being and sorts through them when he gets bored, picking people off like flies. i figured he had heard about the likes of me before. is death the object of a mid-life crisis for a god who got a little too close to the sun and got his feelings hurt? maybe that is the answer after all. he left me at a truck stop off the interstate in anniston, alabama. i didn't catch his name, but i think we'll be introduced again real soon.

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The big gray dog home with a Walkman on my chest , The long drive from Anniston , hitting every small town to the West ... Driver please drop me off in Hapeville , destination Kelleytown or Covington , anyplace on Earth will do , anywhere but Fort McClellan !!

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Feb 3, 2016

Feb 3, 2016 at 11:28 PM UTC

randolph-l-wilson

1984

The big gray dog home with a Walkman on my chest , The long drive from Anniston , hitting every small town to the West ... Driver please drop me off in Hapeville , destination Kelleytown or Covington , anyplace on Earth will do , anywhere but Fort McClellan !!

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Cold , clear creek water hitchhiked from Alabama , caught a thunderstorm just the other side of Anniston .. It rode into Palmetto at the stroke of midnight , jumped off a wall cloud and hit the ground running ! Straight down Main Street taking everything it could carry .. Pine straw , old newspapers , bubble gum wrappers ! Oak leaves , bottle caps and fast food napkins ! The storm came and went , city life returned to normal , a hundred gallons of well travelled transpired water now has it's eyes set on the city of Savannah .. It'll bide it's time in the heat of Palmetto , laying in a storm sewer waiting to be called skyward ... A one way ticket on the 'Evaporation Express' , riding within an eastbound thunderstorm , dropping in on another little city to clean and cool the street , meet at the bottom of a hill to start the journey all over again ..

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Mar 3, 2016

Mar 3, 2016 at 1:07 PM UTC

randolph-l-wilson

Cloudburst Hitchhiker

Cold , clear creek water hitchhiked from Alabama , caught a thunderstorm just the other side of Anniston .. It rode into Palmetto at the stroke of midnight , jumped off a wall cloud and hit the ground running ! Straight down Main Street taking everything it could carry .. Pine straw , old newspapers , bubble gum wrappers ! Oak leaves , bottle caps and fast food napkins ! The storm came and went , city life returned to normal , a hundred gallons of well travelled transpired water now has it's eyes set on the city of Savannah .. It'll bide it's time in the heat of Palmetto , laying in a storm sewer waiting to be called skyward ... A one way ticket on the 'Evaporation Express' , riding within an eastbound thunderstorm , dropping in on another little city to clean and cool the street , meet at the bottom of a hill to start the journey all over again ..

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