CLIMATE CHANGE
Driving from southern Wisconsin
down to southern Illinois
it’s amazing the difference
in landscape
temperature
drivers’ courtesy
Southern Wisconsin streets are
congested
hard to maneuver and
if you don’t know where you’re going
you’re sure to find yourself
stuck up against dead-end streets
one-ways
and even the lakes!
Rolling farms give way to an edgy feel
approaching the “Welcome to Illinois” sign
accompanied by drivers going faster
seeming to need to be somewhere sooner
and bumping up against your rear-view mirror
zooming off in front of you when you pull over
then slowing down in your lane very soon after
What is up with that?
But there is nothing
like the wonderful feel
of open space
acres and acres of farmland
a horizon as big as God
with occasional houses, horses
little manmade ponds strung with RVs
and the “Guns for Life” signs
that leave a message in rhyme
penned by a patriotic
taking poetic license
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