This Poem was Submitted By: James Gavin Consiglio On Date: 2001-10-23 15:10:29 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Leaving It All Behind?

Upon the pavement of mindless commutes,  I spun my last Goodyear.  Exit Dante’s highway,  For the passion that is dirt roads and cow dung.  I surrender stick built homes and oil-fired heat,  And destine to live in a hut, squalid and damp.  For it’s simple structure is that of fleeting peace.  It will be a week without the drive up window,  Before I can eat roots and appreciate wild berries.  Fire.  I will make fire.  And when the winter comes,  My deer skin keeping me warm,  I clamber down the frozen mountain,  To the stick house I left,  And beg my wife to let me in the back door.  And worship before the micro-wave,  Waiting for that frozen burrito I dreamed of  The night before. 

Copyright © October 2001 James Gavin Consiglio


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