“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


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– 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)