Short Rucksack Poems

Rucksack venture 
A hand reaches everywhere
Thumb out in every drift
Hotfooting breeze in the whiff...

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I once knew a woman in Hackensack
Toted what she had in a small rucksack
As she walked the streets,
Looking for someone neat
To take the cumbersome load off her back.

written November 1, 2021...

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Rucksack
My rucksack carries 
Everything
I need, I want, I 
Wish
To be young, easy and
Free
To do anything without 
Care
And compromise but for
Myself
And my cacoon of
Joy
And autonomy, my
Rucksack
...

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Quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach?
Are you kidding, quickest way through mine is my rucksack
Maybe I'm different
Or a wee bit belligerent
Mine's yelling “toot toot”, bloody hell, get back on track!...

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I walked with my legs
straight into nightmares
never saw another person 
coming up the stairs

- Come to get me like that

Breathed through my ankles
lived from a rucksack
slept in the tree house
and walked like a quack quack

- But don't you quote me on that

Take three steps at a time
never need no crutch
didn't want a brother
wasn't asking for much

- They'll never get me like that

I think it's time
and I wish it was time
to let me go home
so let me go home now...

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