Haikus: Moving North

There is far too much to write from the 15 hour drive (yeah, I hauled ass in that truck), to write everything in detail.  Instead, I've expressed it all in haikus. Some are reflective, some...less so. 

Texas

Face is stained in salt

Glasses smudged and soaked

Pull over. 

Focus on being in a truck

Passing another truck

Feel like a badass. 

Deliberately defy orders

Check Facebook and text while driving.

Lonely. 

Pick-up truck with monster wheels and 

Fake steer horns on the top.

Temporarily pleased to leave. 

Oklahoma

Last stop for Braums

In Norman, OK

My ice cream drips fast.

Saw a tumbleweed blown by the wind

Sweeping down the plains.

All I think about is Broadway.

Kansas

“I will not get lost in Witchita.”

I promise myself.

Take a wrong turn.

Silos are farm phalluses.

Like country skyscrapers.

Too much lonely silence.

Missouri

Kansas City in
Kansas City.

Music appropriateness.

Posted sign:

“$10,000 fine for hitting construction worker”

Kansas City road rage.

Longest stretch.

Missouri Missouri

Misery.

Iowa

Visible difference between

Missouri and Iowa.
Farms? Democrats? Perspective.

Osceola, Iowa:

We meet once again.

I am a creature of habit.

Minnesota

Blue state,

Blue heart.

I got the blues.

Still can’t get musicals out of my head.

Looking for Avenue Q in Chicago,

Worrying about RENT.

Moving In, First Day

Narrow corners on a three-floor staircase.

Full size box spring won’t fit.

Demoted to mattress on the floor

No closet.

Amazon delivers.

“Closet.”

Dinner at fancy eatery.

Truffle fries.

Late night snack at bowling alley.

Rock and roll bingo.

Trivia AND bingo, all in one.

New tradition.

No closet, blank walls, no box spring.

Adjusting abruptly to city life.

Feels like home more than ever.