Acres of Shade
I think that I will never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer – Trees
See You in the Funny Papers
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“I don’t remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
― Edward Said,
Philadelphia
I was bruised and battered
I couldn’t tell what I felt
I was unrecognizable to myself
Saw my reflection in a window
And didn’t know my own face
Oh brother are you gonna leave me
wastin’ away
On the streets of Philadelphia?
– Bruce Springsteen
Kansas City
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson: “Is this
Heaven?”
Ray Kinsella: “No… it’s Iowa.”
Little Soaps
“There’s more to life than being a passenger.”
– Amelia Earhart
Texas – Life Imitating Art
When I got old enough to take the train alone
I rode that Texas Eagle down to San Antone.
Texas Eagle – Steve Earle
The Road Less Traveled – New England
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
Meriwether and Clark – Montana
“Kid Russell, I got a job for you.
You’re in charge of sunsets up in old Montana,
‘Cause I can’t paint them quite as good as you.
– Ian Tyson – The Gift
Tron Doras
To know where you come from is to know where you are going.
– Russell Paton
Cuba Libra
When the waiter came by, he told us that the guests who had just left were descendants of Fidel Castro.