Travelin’ Boy – Part One

Travelin’ Boy – Part One

I grew up in Iowa
knew I was a guy in love
with any place the other side of the
country
 
So I stuck my thumb out
Luckily Luck left a crumb out
But funds and fun done run out   
in Kentucky
 
I can confidently assert this:
you don’t know what work is
Until you work a circus
for a season
 
I worked my way to barker
I played my part with ardor
but the gypsy said “your cards are
For leavin’”
 
I’m just a travelin’ boy
I’m just a travelin’ boy
 
I moved down to the Florida Keys
behaved rather Gomorrahishly
Then knew  there was more to see
in the South
 
So I moved to Dallas
With its core coarse and callous
made of meat and malice
and mouth
 
Went up to Colorado
raised cattle on a plateau
got married didn’t last though
here is why:
 
We gambled on shared bliss
but enchantment anteceded “dis”
as did “may” and so we unkissed
And  said goodbye
 
I’m just a travelin’ boy
I’m just a travelin’ boy
 
I moved to beautiful Puget Sound
wrote a musical about abusive clowns
Ii was tuneful but it closed down
After one performance
 
The songs were sorta “Tears for Fears”
Bozo standing up to peers
Brando/Waterfront veneer
Of importance
 
I went part punk in New York City
Got art drunk and wordless witty
My money sunk into “Hair Care for Kitty”
In Hell’s Kitchen
 
Mohawk kittens all the rage
Patti-Smith-smittened it was the age
When it finished turned the page
And went fishin’
 
I’m just a travelin’ boy
I’m just a travelin’ boy
 
I’d always been enamored of Huck Finn
Pretty much the standard of livin’ on a whim
So I got hammered and went lookin’ for my Jm
In Missouri
 
Without a thought away I ran
In the Bronx, I bought a van
No longer caught in anyone’s plan
What? Me worry?
 
But my car died and I had no money
Got a lift from an Indiana Muncie honey
Pretty and innocent, sunny and funny
And quite Christian
 
But I looked past that to her breasts
They looked right back and bade me rest
And so I passed on goin’ west
To kiss them
 
She said “If you want these for to savor
Would you please for me do the favor
Of accepting Jesus as your saviour?”
I said, “Where do I sign?”

I met the minister (her dad, of course)
I felt a little sinister, my motives were coarse
And though a sinner, I felt this strange force
For the first time

Till then, I thought it all pure fiction  
That the lame walked, cured of affliction
Then I went Saul to Paul, The Crucifixion
Could vanquish death

But I was still as irreverent as a kid could be
I said to Reverend I had an affinity
For being born again cause I liked the vicinity
From whence I gasped for my first breath

The aside was tasteless and I apologized
Suddenly I felt weightless at the riverside
This is what grace was – my old self died
I was delivered

But midway through my baptism
Out of the blue the wind was arisen
And before I knew I was driven
Down the river
 
I’ll tell you later what comes after
But you must wait till the next chapter
What awaits is some  disaster
You might think
 
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