Where are you from and why do I care...and let me tell you about...?

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have you ever been to Winnemucca?
or Flint?...maybe Star City or Eldorado

there's some eight thousand people in Winnemucca
mostly alive, some less than others, all proud
a few Chinese stayed on after the railroad
Amtrak came and stayed...am I boring you?
on to Flint...no?...I am boring you

well where do you live
that's so darn excitin'...huh?
sure, tell me about the fairs and carnivals
or how so and so invented this and that
the BEST pecan pie...anywhere?...really...great
now you're boring me...so you see
we are boring everyone
except ourselves, whom we find to be...uhhhh
interesting and exciting and different, unique even
proclaiming our roots made us
cautiously protective with insulating phrases, like
at least we're not...out mayor never has been...

oh, I am boring you again...sorry

you ever been to New Orleans?
well let me tell you about my home.................
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Answer 1

I was searching for a link to Jim Carrolls "Secret Poets of Kansas"

to answer this question. It came to mind immediately when I read

your post. Nice write, thank you.





Jim carroll died alone at his desk last friday.

Answer 2

I like Mountain View. Not just because wifey works there. I love the old fashionedness of its parts. Breathtaking views. Cows swaggering over lush meadows. Rolling hills that undulate unto Half Moon Bay. I feel peace when I traverse that route, hobbling from Oakland to Internetville.



But it doesn't compare to where I am now. On the humid sunny coast of West Africa. Soaking my Nunn Bush shoes wet in the warm waters of the Atlantic. I'm not on the beach. I'm walking on a paved road. But the powers that be in the Atlantic decided to surge and cover motorable roads with sand and silt. A few select people have amassed fortunes claiming to build contraptions to prevent such surges. But let me not bore you with Corruption here.



Ahh, the views along the waterfront; a man takes his bath beside the lagoon, genitals and all hung out should in case any one needs a specimen to identify body parts with.



Another man crouches by the embarkment, answering the call of nature and empties his bowels unto the hot earth.



I notice a congregation by the bus stop. I'm told a pick pocket has been caught and would soon have a burning tire looped around his neck. But can't anyone stop the extra judicial judgement? Why? It's a worthwhile pass time for the common man. Afterall he can't afford a ticket to the movies. Here he gets to see something that no film trick can equate.



I board a bus and feel sorry for the fellow. Wondering deep in my heart why man sometimes is so shallow.



I find time to study the faces around me, hoping to find some comfort, or traces of inner bliss. Frustration, desperation, despair and anger stare back at me and force my look to turn to the floor.



The West was wild once before in days long time past I begin to placate myself with. When hired guns bestrode sidewalks and horse thieves were two for a penny. When land barons seized at will. And a drink at the bar could be your last.



Maybe someday..... maybe, just maybe.....

Answer 3

I was to New Orleans many times and luckily with an expense account! Even got lost once driving downtown and ended up in the part of the City where I was the odd one that everyone stared at! Great food, great atmosphere, some great architectural features and god awful weather. Yup, I have been there. Now pass the beignets!

Answer 4

YES! I've been to Winnemucca! Actually, 'through' Winnemucca, when, at the tender age of 18 my high school chum & I hitchhiked around the western US.



I live in Santa Cruz, CA. Our boardwalk sports the oldest wooden roller coaster - aficionados have come from all over the world to scream on our 'rolley coaster'.

I grew up one county over, Santa Clara County, in the town of Mountain View. During my childhood the place was a mere burg of 49,000. Last I heard, the population was over 60,000. Almonds and cherries one decade, silicon chips the next!!!



Hey, you don't bore me. This is the stuff of life. This is the "can't we all jest get along" part I love.

Keep up the Good Work.

Answer 5

Boredom can befall anyone - at various times. Various reasons are causes of boredom. Various people - get bored - for various reasons - with everything else being the same. Like a mother - should never be bored of taking take of her kids. Yet - some mothers are. Bad match - would you say. Hey - are you bored yet? Just south of San Francisco - on a cliff overlooking the ocean.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2THv_Ts9RYQ/SNARG5dA0jI/AAAAAAAAA3I/7bBEk6iNvPo/s400/boredom-copy.jpg

Answer 6

Morning Call? Of course. Flint, Michigan...yup.



Now, as to Pecan Pie, homemade, with either whipped cream or hard sauce...that's here.

Answer 7

....My camper broke down in Flint once

I'm not sure if there's a good side of town

it wasn't where I was anyhow....



you know where I live

you've seen it up close and personnel

call it everything I have...right now

I know your New Orleans too

I can never thank you enough for that



I wanna go to Winnemucca now

but maybe a tour is called for

different camper this time of course

a Winnebago

Answer 8

When I saw the name "Winnemucca"

I felt as if I had petrified and gone

to Chula Vista.



Not bored.



BARELY NEAR RENO

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That Motel 6 in Winnemucca, they

did drop me bored and watched by Ms. Diwitch,

who fed me shiiit like Ritz all freakin' day,

and made me play outside beside a ditch,



that ran along the space where trailers parked,

while lucky U.S. kids were freed to pee,

in a pool Diwitch would spit "not me" then bark,

"now don't you dare jump in or you will be"



then naked white my willie froze her gape,

I locked Diwitch in room one thirty two,

and raced with terry to the peanut shape,

to piss and paddle, free at last to do



If parents dump your azzz to play the slots,

Ensure you've scrubbed da'orbs and shined what-

....knots.

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Answer 9

Hank Snow sang it best...

I've been everywhere, man,

crost the desert bare man,

Ive been everywhere.