Sometimes we take the bus [into town]
November 26, 2011
Sometimes we take the bus.
Amy Goodman in our ears and war and woods on our minds.
It stops at the local VA Medical Center on the outskirts of town.
Riding with veterans.
Their bodies. Their expressions.
Their tattoos, laughter and limps.
Whose hidden tracks are found at bus stops and package stores
Riding with veterans
Into town
Town.
A landscape that inspires cynicism and hope.
Town.
home to recreational drinking and peace vigils
chain stores and farmer’s markets
landscape painters and conceptual artists
Town.
devolving alternatives: hippies, hipsters, yuppies
farmers, activists and artists
fantastically liberal and queer
Slipping on the flat-heeled knee-high boots of this season’s capitalism.
long-timers and transplants
professors and immigrants
You must be free.
On your backs we will make you free.
