Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Artist, Ch. 1

It was more Thoreau than Kerouac

but the artist hit the road.

She had no choice

that she remembers.

What she does remember is her friend telling her

"so I heard you started smoking crack."

After that the miasma lifted.

She was in a room with a dozen people

with boarded up windows.

A peculiar plan emerged

She would walk from this place in St. louis

to California.

Living off the land along the way

starting now.

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