Episode 17: I-74 Streetcorners of America Poem

In this special Father's Day episode, Connor and Jack dig into "I-74 Streetcorners of America Poem (Written on the Road Between Albany Illinois and Albany Indiana)" by Charlie Rossiter.

For Charlie's podcast, Poetry Spoken Here, go here.

I-74 Streetcorners of America Poem
(Written on the Road Between Albany
Illinois and Albany Indiana, 10/95)
By: Charlie Rossiter
 
Sun rise over the Rock River
and all over America people wake
to face the day as if
nothing were happening
while all around them
mountains are pushed up
and weathered down
rivers flex and flow
new life is born
at a truckstop on I-74 outside of Kickapoo
someone is pumping gas
into a diesel engine that spent
the weekend in Colorado
someone’s heart got broken last night
in Mississippi and before
the day is over someone in Cincinnati
will fall in love
someone’s had enough and leaving home
in Topeka, someone in Takoma’s
got the blues
it’s like a carnival out there, a casino
which way the cards will fall
is anybody’ call
one thing’s for sure
we’re all in this together
at least I’m in
how about you
c’mon ante up and deal