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Blacktop Moaning
by Jerry Bolton

Friday, June 29, 2012
Rated "G" by the Author.
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A little not so nice nostalgia about those long, lonesome decades when I was truly a loner and a man without a future.


blacktop moaning from the heat
looks like steam coming from a kettle
each day longer than the one before
I walk awhile, kicking cans out of my way
stop, stick out my thumb
cuss those who drive by without even a look
my thumb is as tired and worn
as is my soul
this is purgatory
this is the faux entrance to hell
I'm going nowhere
I've nowhere left to go
I'm bound to this blasted
blacktop moaning
and I'm tired, so utterly tired
a whiff of perfume
of women I've had in nice places
away from the blacktop moaning
some of them whispered those three little words
sometimes I whispered 'em back
not meaning them
don't think most of them meant 'em either
still, I always left
back to the blacktop moaning
there would be others
I'd be unable to remain with them also
its the blacktop moaning that owns this man
keeping on hanging on

my heart damaged
beyond repair
will there never be someone for me
that I can love back
its as if I've a tattoo across my forehead
STOP . . . LOOK . . . BEWARE
this one is tainted
this one is eat up with blacktop moaning
chasing the setting sun
nowhere to call home
I just walk along that meandering blacktop moaning
alone
searching for eyes that will make me dance
like a butterfly
until then I move along the blacktop moaning
the tattoo has now moved into my soul


©June 9, 2012 / Jerry Pat Bolton

 

 

 

 

 

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Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci 6/29/2012
Such a sad story written so beautifully! You've been around, my man!

Love ya!

Jane
Reviewed by Vivian Dawson 6/29/2012
Almost like voodoo casting a spell !!!
*Jerry* "STOP . . . LOOK . . . BEWARE"
You already know what to do....

Lady Vivian
Reviewed by Christine Alwin 6/29/2012
Now this one I read from the inside out...riveting Jerry~fine work!
Reviewed by Ed Matlack 6/29/2012
Makes me think of a hitchhikers lament...would have liked to hitchhike across the country, but my time for that came too late...e
Reviewed by Laura Fall 6/29/2012
A heartfelt and deep moving write my friend Laura
Reviewed by Roger Wayne Eberle 6/29/2012
When wanderlust takes up residence in the human heart, the homing instinct is replaced by the need to roam... a gestalt this poem captures quite well, Jerry.

Roger
Reviewed by Odin Roark 6/29/2012
The longings of a Bukowski lament, the blacktop moaning, like an inhaling gluttonous demon, life's highway, that paved tongue engineered to exude its invitation with no mercy for rest, ambles without regret, knowing we will have more than enough to necessitate wear and tear on its digestion. Still, we stick out that thumb for one more chance to beat the odds.
Reviewed by Richard King 6/29/2012
Been there Jerry. Day to day, week to week, just looking to get from sunup to sunset and then repeat, over & over again. I know the feeling. Mix in a little female companionship along the way and it makes it all sound like a more enjoyable adventure than the reality of it all proved to be.

Course, I never did find any ".. eyes that will make me dance like a butterfly.." Perhaps that might have made the difference.

Much enjoyed, Dick
Reviewed by Lily of Lough Neagh C. Dennis-Woosley 6/29/2012
In the pits of hell at that moment. Not only was the blacktop moaning so was your soul at that time. You couldn't have been farther down into the pit.

You have a very unique creative way of allowing all of us into your world during times of your life. I know others have been where you have Jerry, and when you write your woes your woes touch others. Those who have lifted themselves out of and off of the blacktop moaning appreciate you greatly for they know a kindred soul who understands them. You have a great gift and wonderful insight.

For myself, I walked every step in this wonderful piece! I felt what you did, but of course I feel what others feel. There are no words to describe how well you write in all you do.

Fantastic Jerry

Love and Light
Lily
Reviewed by Budd Nelson 6/29/2012
Jerry,
I agree with Annabel, you are masterful at allowing your readers to see through your feelings as if we were trudging along the moaning blacktop with you in those years before.
Budd
Reviewed by Annabel Sheila 6/29/2012
You write this so masterfully...giving the reader a glimpse inside your soul....you're an amazing writer, Jerry! One can feel the anguish...right to the soul.....

Anna
Reviewed by pat medlin 6/29/2012
this write takes use all on a moaning blacktop trudge through lonliness.... words whose soulful crys speak for many men...women too in may be a different way...all searching, moving on from place to lonely place...no longer the heart to look for, but waiting for 'eyes that will make them dance'. i give this one a thumbs up jerry
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