mt pleasant, ia

Machines, threshers, and people,
Mighty historic wings in a flat land for grazing,
More places to get your hair did then population,
more places for competition.
Trucks are bigger than manhood,
Stranger danger pervades the streets,
And yet…
A simple decency exists.
Machines, threshers and people.
Mighty lion paws in an abundance of pizza joints
Less places to get your health did then needed,
Less places for the traveling wanderer,
Cars are one per person.
Cause everyone has to go somewhere with nowhere to go.
And yet…..
Life.

Indiana, Illinois, Iowa

If I could name you over,
If I could build a castle in the vacancy,
If I could find you on main st,
If I could buy a kernel of truth,
if I could store the winter,
If I could sell your views,
If I could consider you home,
If I could name the clouds,
If I could believe in champions,
If I could, i would.

Petrol and pavement,
Dulcimers and dumplings,
The waitress lives by the train tracks
in Midway, Ky where rests the lonely jockey.
Double scoop of Ale 8 good sir with a tinge of ginger and bluegrass lovin’
I’m a mile tiger, while my son tames lions.
We race on.
We race on.