Thursday, June 10, 2021

Today's poem "Is Jurgen's Lotion made in Muncie or Kokomo?"

 

Is Jurgen’s Lotion made in Muncie or Kokomo?

 

No, but car radios were in which one, along with

Mr Mustard but I know I am you are wrong about it

cornfields differ from Lebanon about the same as

 

Crawfordsville and that lotion which isn’t made

glider rockers on the Ohio as Tell shot arrows

up by Fort Wayne somewhere in  buses and RVs

 

with pioneer dudes riding around in horse carriages

with 19th century watermelons grown down on sandhills

Hoosiers anything they put their mind mining coal to

 

is masterpiece basketball from the past strawberries

flat bottom land roads no traffic in any direction

lapsing into the engine noise ricocheted everywhere

 

train whistles blowing 500 miles once a milk bottle

yearly extenuating Benjamin Harrison and Jimmy Hoffa

Brazil on down to Bean Blossom and the WPA lakes

 

snow covering State Park card tournaments weekenders

on Mars Hill the topographic maps read themselves

a kind of stalking antique map in stifling humidity

 

in full effort sugar maple camps sap runs boil

100 miles of high school wind farms past the old bend

a thousand bats in rock jacket patches flying nights

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