(Wednesday 11:00 a.m. 09/20/2000 by JCH)
a yr. ago
i was riding the Royal Gorge
though my spirit was flying high above
now i can barely make ends meet

the Kansas landscape a yr. ago
gave me a moment to pause
a life unlived
at least now i was in motion
my mind turning a thousand directions at once
now my thoughts are cluttered again

passing over the Mississippi for the first time
a yr. ago
in the land of the delta blues
chasing my ghosts away
burying them hundreds of miles from my home
now the skeletons have returned
to dance their dance for me once again

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