RETIREMENT READING

A trucker in retirement

 

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A Trucker’s Travels

He’s a roving ol’ trucker from Margie, Minnesota,

Months on the road behind a long nose  Detroit motor,

From the Florida Keys to the broad plains of Ohio.

To be loaded in Kansas and sent back to Toledo,

He’s travelled every interstate, highway and byway,

From New York to Chicago and across to LA.

Springfield, Mansfield, Bakersfield or any place in betwixt,

Dayton, Denton, Trenton, a trucker never knows where next.

He’s hauled Hondas to Huntsville, paint to Pittsburgh,

Machinery from Michigan, whiskey to Spartanburg,

Chemicals, textiles, carpets, ice cream and herbicide,

Picking-up and delivering coast-to-coast and nationwide,

Boondocks to metropolis to unload in a shady back alley,

Running the routes with the trucker’s Bible, a Rand McNally.

Hartford, Rockford, Rumford, Sanford or any place in betwixt,

Great Falls, Little Falls, Niagara, a trucker never knows where next.

At a customer’s yard he prays for a quick drop-and-hook,

To accumulate the miles faster in his dubious logbook.

Avoiding the speed cops and weigh stations makes him smile,

Because as an interstate trucker he gets paid by the mile.

He’ll drive eighteen hours from state to state as time flies by,

Until he finds a parking lot, ramp or shoulder for shut-eye.

Amarillo, Chico, Fargo, Hugo, Waco or any place in betwixt,

Altoona, Elmira, Wichita, a trucker never knows where next.

From the Golden Gate Bridge to the Great Smoky Mountains,

Passed lakes, rivers, falls, forests and high-spurting fountains,

Monuments, Statues, deserts and the winding Mississippi,

With his eighteen-wheel sleeper he’s an incurable  gypsy.

He’ll follow the blacktop through Oregon, Maine and Wyoming,

Until he reaches the  freeway in the sky and the final homecoming.

Chesapeake, Yakima, Kerman, Saginaw and every place in betwixt,

Bozeman, Kingman, Kerman,  the trucker trucks till the end is next

From Highway America by Peter Blakeborough

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