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Travels and Poetry
Up until 1989, I'd lived my entire life in New York and California (mostly California). Over the years, I had meet many people who moved to California from other places and they always spoke about how different life in California is from where ever they came from. I began to get curious. So
from 1989 to 1991, I lived in a 1971 Volkswagen camper van with my dog Ziffle (full name was Arnold Ziffle after the pig in Green Acres for you old TV buffs).
We traveled the country, hitting forty states in two years, visiting museuems, meeting people and walking the land. I wrote a series of poems that became a chapbook called Notes From The Road.
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Volkswagenism
Cult of do it yourselfers
Who cruise the blacktopped white striped
Highways like
East European Gypsies
In the eighteen hundreds ... |
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Am I the only person in the Ozarks
Caressing myself with a
Cold wet washcloth
Before bedtime
At dusk
The wind galivants
Stirs up the souls of people long gone
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If you want the entire chapbook, send $5 to:
Karin Zirk/Notes From the Road
4629 Cass Street #188
San Diego CA 92109
and I'll mail you a copy.
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