11-27-2023, 07:46 AM
Takeoff
Seeming to sag between
Lake Erie and its namesake river
Ohio also anchors
Walter Mondale’s throw-away
“Rust Belt” of supposed
lands without hope or joy
forgetting in his high-nosed
losing anti-Reagan twang
a green heartland from which
the world took flight
(as, by happenstance, did I).
Seeming to sag between
Lake Erie and its namesake river
Ohio also anchors
Walter Mondale’s throw-away
“Rust Belt” of supposed
lands without hope or joy
forgetting in his high-nosed
losing anti-Reagan twang
a green heartland from which
the world took flight
(as, by happenstance, did I).
Non-practicing atheist