“ONE SIDE – ONE RIDE – YOU CAN – NOT HIDE!” a poem Tuesday: 10/16/18
Don’t pick HER! (She has “baggage!”)
And – with-Older-Women – there’s always ‘sag-age!!
THIS-SIDE-of-The-Track is BETTER!
The-”Messicans” – are always “wetter,”
For, when the heavy rains do come,
The Flood is OVER THERE, but-”Whities!”- ain’t-that-kinda-dum?
For you’ll have to clean up anyway,
And YOUR HOUSES-will-GO – ANOTHER DAY!
My “ride” is BETTER; it bounces “nice;”
[OUR cars are newer; we-can-pay-the price,
For an “up-to-date model!] BUT (pause) Wait a few years,
These MODERN CARS* (pause) will bring MANY TEARS,
BECAUSE! They age! {just like everything},
And NOW! over-to-THAT-side** those cars we’ll bring!
SO – WE’VE ALL GOT BAGGAGE, RICH AND POOR,
And “peace of mind!” Who’s got more?
There’s different luggage, BUT – there’s-always-some,
So, my people – pour-me a-cup-of-festive-rum!
WE THINK THERE’S LESS BAGGAGE – and – WE THINK,
THERE’S A BETTER SIDE;
And we THINK – that, from our neighbor, we can run and hide!
There’s NO “real” happy or sad, for the swift flying years,
Bring each one some joy – and each one some tears;
NOT the rich and the poor, for, to count a (wo)man’s wealth,
You must FIRST know the state of her (his) conscience and health!
We are in THE SAME BOAT; we are ON THE SAME SIDE,
And, we think, that-by-crossing (or-jumping) in-some-better-place-we’ll-abide!
So – try-to stop-assessing-baggage – or planning to get,
A way better deal (pause) WHY DON’T YOU LET,
Yourselves-relax-a-little and-count-everything as-OK,
AND LOVE-ONE-ANOTHER – MANANA!? BUT, especially, TODAY!! 🙂
fin. <3
*
– or International Fence Lines – or attempts to “keep things out” or “segregate,” when a process of “cohesion,” which seems, for lack of a better word: “natural” is operational, always has been – perhaps always will be!! 🙂
** – of any (arbitrary) track (railroad or otherwise)
