Some of my best friends
Six Hours Behind
Some of my best friends
are Americans, and behind
by six or more hours
Some of my best friends wake up
well into my day
and fall asleep early morning
Some of my best friends
leave me emails in my sleep
and call us Y'all
Some of my best friends
have never been to Europe
or only once, and crave
cheeseburgers if they do
and want us to straighten out
our roads over here
Some of my friends don't understand
siestas or multi-colored Euro bills
or no ice to be had
for love or money. My best friends
have never seen Europe
in movies, the way we've seen siding
in that alien mint-green, boys throwing
newspapers and wide wide cars
made for straight Texas roads.
Some of my best friends know
hurricanes on a first name, shake palms
basis. Am I lucky or what?
Shisa
Some of my best friends
are Americans, and behind
by six or more hours
Some of my best friends wake up
well into my day
and fall asleep early morning
Some of my best friends
leave me emails in my sleep
and call us Y'all
Some of my best friends
have never been to Europe
or only once, and crave
cheeseburgers if they do
and want us to straighten out
our roads over here
Some of my friends don't understand
siestas or multi-colored Euro bills
or no ice to be had
for love or money. My best friends
have never seen Europe
in movies, the way we've seen siding
in that alien mint-green, boys throwing
newspapers and wide wide cars
made for straight Texas roads.
Some of my best friends know
hurricanes on a first name, shake palms
basis. Am I lucky or what?
Shisa
posted by Aisha | 4:33 PM
4 Comments:
Some of my best friends don't know the joy of Tim Horton's coffee every day :), or understand large bodies of fresh water, that they freeze in winter. Some of my best friends can't drive less than five minutes out of town and watch horses pulling plows through October fields, the last rites before winter.
Y'all know, this would make a wonderful composite poem for the book project, as we do all live in such different regions of this world.
Helm.
brilliant! Shall I post it at postcards or add something at the oasis...
funny that you Canadians fall halway into noth my categories...you DID pine for that cheeseburger ;)
Aisha
Post something in the dunes, might get a more immediate response.
You know, I did probably pine for a cheeseburger, would have been a cheeseburger in paradise when I was in Rome :).
Funny, now, when I want something that I shouldn't have because it's bad for me, C. and I get into the car, drive down to Niagara Falls and we go to the one place I'm certain that we can get a very Italian Margaritta pizza.
Helm.
I am with Hel, Shister. This is so good and suitable for out project. Post it to the Oasis but also ot Postcards...
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