Long Flyover Poems

From time to time, people ask me
About my education.
Only then, I remember
I have no degrees or diplomas.
I attended no university either.
I hated textbooks and exams.
I still do.
That's bad education, they say.

But they don't know
I was...

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Stepping down from the AC coach
on to the railway platform
A hot wave of salty moist air 
drenches me
On my customary visit
to this city I'm tethered to
by my memories..
She coyly calls herself Chennai
like a new bride...

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Is Donald Trump a saint or a sinner? 

This question hangs
in bars and in corridors of power
This man, Trump, is habitually torn to shreds, by political editors representing the opposition, while some
people point out the...

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A new day arrives; I'm waiting for the morning sun.
Rains pissing on me, God must be having fun.
I crawl myself out of bed & move to the bathroom to take a shower.
Sipping on a beer...

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Things happen. Life unravels
The earth spins, perpetuating processes
And as we recount our travels
Our hearers marvel
Stories of prophets' heads on silver platters 
Representations of old things
And we should be somehow flattered
By images of our saggy bottoms...

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Above the clouds in many splendored hues of blue and white
    This view beheld by an honored and rarest few

A nations treasure lies below in marble and in green
   ...

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Slenderly community 
The land of sobers
Enough for plunderers 
Ground of Ivory
Home of diamond and gold
Is now Magufulized 

No more embezzling
Lazy are working
Respecting their roles
No more liquoring  
This is the land
We all dreamed by

Reviving the...

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The sitting president of the USA (irony)

My dislike of Trump is deep
like that of any dictator driven by ambition and cruelty. 
Then I read the twitter and find tittle-tattle 
about him and the women in...

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The Five Hour Flyover 
David J Walker

Oceans of cotton and pumpjack sails 
The reality of time on miles prevails
On the horizon painted and parted by hours of 
Tipping the scales between 
small towns hovering over...

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Last summer
We drove across the country
Just the wife and me

10,000 miles
31 states
Three months on the road

I now know why people don’t live 
In South Dakota

Hot, dry dusty
Windy as hell

Black Hills are nice
But after seeing Mt....

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My country people
join still in political meaningless processions 
just for one plate fried rice 

My country people
strike roads and highways still 
just for a piece of cloths 

My country people
do riot still with indigenous 
just...

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Covert Opportunities

The Council covered the bridge in diagonal meshing not be trashed
        Too many souls had digressed from the path into now hidden depth
    ...

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Those, who work this country,
ride private planes and limousines
or other cars for hire.

Them, who make the country work,
drive big rigs and pick-up trucks
and actually perspire.

Those, on their high-cost carbon commutes,
make jokes about them.
Looking down on...

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Wanderlust norm get off scarf
Swizzling bees dwindle on jurev ring
Dancing queen Swindle with ming
Milkyriver never touch off line
Firmy women waving power
Be hurry run to avid
Horizon land rover off Heather
Get my signal turn to reveal
Gesture realm...

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