Here's one I hear as a kind of Bluesy song in my head:
Eighteen Hours
© 2015 Rick Hutchins
Better eighteen hours on a train
Than three days on the road
and in cheap motels
It’s easier on the brain
To just pack up and go
Don’t ask, don’t tell
I’m headin’ south for the winter
And keepin’ to
the hinterlands
I’m gettin’ outta Dodge
to skip the blizzards
And bettin’ that the odds
are better as a wanderer
than a bitter man
Better eighteen hours on a train
Just watchin’ America
Outside my window
It’s a way to ease my pain
A way I might forget her
Good-bye, Shiloh
Good-bye, Shiloh
The train tracks beckon
Better eighteen hours
Than one more second
of your twistin’ knife
I’m headin’ south for the winter
And keepin’ to
the hinterlands
I’m gettin’ outta Dodge
to skip the blizzards
And bettin’ that the odds
are better as a wanderer
than a bitter man
Better eighteen hours on a train
Than three days on the road
and in cheap motels
It’s easier on the brain
To just pack up and go
Don’t ask, don’t tell
Eighteen Hours - Poem
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Re: Eighteen Hours - Poem
Good one RJ, set it to music and I;ll sing it like Good morning Ameirca how are ya. I like railroad songs.
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Re: Eighteen Hours - Poem
Thank you. I hear it as a song in my head, but I can't write music or carry a tune, so I think it's stuck in here forever.