Across America
He traveled to the canyon,
and thought it worth its name
a canvas for the sunset's gleam
to luminesce with flame
He walked from there to Laughlin,
he gambled with his change
and lost it all to old rich men
who thought him somewhat strange
He climbed into the Rockies
to soak up nature's balm
was lost three days, but made it out
before he'd lost his calm
He trudged along the highways,
to cross the rolling plains
was picked up by a trucking man
who taught him sins from stains
He crossed the Appalachians,
and hiked their wending trails
and when he left their beautied flanks,
saw ocean fraught with sails
He chanced upon his forebears
in graveyards near New York
then celebrated mortal things
by gambling with the stork
He sojourned south with patience,
he laughed at simple fun
found love in lonely white sand
and the preachings of the sun
poem by Poet Dragon
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