bobobi11 Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 I came through the clothesline maze of childhood in basketball shoes. Up from the cracked cement of sidewalks. Long hair blowing in the breeze from barber-college haircuts. I moved into the country knowing love better than long division. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/008/cz/jt/1D/eD43396.jpg'> Tricking out with women twice my age we acted out our own French postcards. Dr. Jekyll in the schoolyard. Mr. Hyde behind the barn. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/018/MN/id/wQ/0a24056.jpg'> After school the trians, Their whistles known by heart. Pennies flattened on a rail and dresser drawers with matchbooks from every northern town-- thrown by unknown travelers who never waved back. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/010/ZK/fV/VV/i688453.jpg'> I knew the U.P. right of way so well that gandy dancers called me toe-head till they learned my name and engineers would sometimes whistle down the scale on seeing my arm raised. Baseball's just a sissy game to anyone who's waved at passing trains. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/004/Qz/om/Ky/z493010.jpg'> You learn from hobos the art of catching trains. Locomotives slow at trestles and whistle stops to hook the mail. http://www.snowcrest.net/bndlstif/gallery19.jpg'> Diving through an open boxcar you lie there till your breath comes back. Then standing in the doorway you're the king as crowns of hills and towns go by and nighttime eats the summer up and spits the stars across the sky. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/007/Wt/aa/us/dX97666.jpg'> How did I come to know so many lonesome cities with only pennies in my pockets? I smiled a lot and rode a lot of trains and got to know conductors and railroad bulls by name. From Alamo to Naples is a ride that took me nearly twenty years. But here I am, my cardboard suitcase traded in for leather. Rod McKuen "Lonesome Cities" http://wsphotofews.excite.com/011/aq/Ue/TO/4n97245.jpg'> [This message has been edited by bobobi11 (edited 09-08-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 nice post. good photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hipnos Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 http://www.12ozprophet.com/ubb//smile.gif'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobi11 Posted September 8, 2001 Author Share Posted September 8, 2001 Originally posted by T.T Boy: nice post. good photography. Thanks, however honesty makes me admit that these photos are all shamelessly stolen. I just liked this poem and wanted to have photos to go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 stolen or not, you still get a pound.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown twinkie Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 good shits. the first two flicks are real nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bare Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 That really cheered me up, thanks a lot...that was dope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 nice....that second photo is breathtaking (im not being sacastic, that the only word i could describe it with) ------------------ brick, brick ,brick...thats how i be up against your girlfriends ass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 O Winston Link like woah.....nice post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eros Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 I just got off the phone with my sister who was telling me she was going to frat parties at college. Needless to say the idea of my sister off getting drunk around a bunch of meatheads got me a little tense. Looking at your thread relaxed me and gave me a cheery feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IDONTLIKEYOU Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 very unique.. i think thast how u spell it.. i enjoyed...... ------------------ And he said... "Im goin to stab you in your temple". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pilau Hands Posted September 8, 2001 Share Posted September 8, 2001 i want to be in the first two places one of these days, weeks, months, years, i want to get up to new england where fall is Autumn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*ZEMONEDOE$ Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 truely a dying art form thatneeds presorvation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrokenFuckingLung Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobi11 Posted September 9, 2001 Author Share Posted September 9, 2001 Part Two Now a traveler under the gray-black winter sky moving down the mountain by torchlight, I've come to find a gathering of eagles. Not for the sake of mingling with the great birds, but just to justify a thousand streets walked end to end. Ten thousands evenings spent listening to the small sounds of the night in station after station. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/015/XN/GD/xJ/0a16948.jpg'> Not every town in Switzerland has a golden Gondelbahn, but there are other ways to climb the hills and reach the lonesome cities of the world. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/012/nz/k3/lm/0254071.jpg'> Riding friendly bodies you can inch your way to Heaven let alone the far side of the room and who'd deny that brushing elbows in certain street has not produced for every man at least one vision of Atlantis. For me old habits don't break easily I wait for trains. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/003/16/2g/oM/PI78399.jpg'> Sometimes I feel I've always been just passing through. On my way away, or toward. Shouting allelulias in an unseen choir or whispering fados down beneath my breath waiting for an echo not an answer. Everbody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand new question. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/012/sg/cr/B6/V994330.jpg'> What about the trains you ride do they go fast or slow would I recognize your face clacking past the poplar trees if I were stationed on some hill? If I did I'd know you by the look of nothing in your eyes the kindred look that travelers have the one that says a tentative hello. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/016/E1/YF/pY/Q745777.jpg'> If while riding down the rails you see a boy in overalls along the railroad right of way wave as you go by. Signal with a frown you too are going down the same road. Small boys need encouragement the freight trains in their minds will only take them just so far Be kind for small boys need to grow. http://wsphotofews.excite.com/004/Qz/om/Ku/NA54603.jpg'> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satellite Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 well, even if you didn't write it or flick them, it's a very nice compilation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburbian bum Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 wow very nice, much props. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest circus freak Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 what is all this hippie bullshit! fr8s are good for one thing and one thing only; that is to be a rollin canvas!!! ------------------ walls are good but metal rolls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-town_bomber Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 those damn fr8 hoppers. lol son ------------------ Twisty Cat Krew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TEARZ Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*SIZEROKS* Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 werd up circus i said the same thing!!!!!!!!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wakassOATH Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 werd nice pictures dude where my cottage is in the contry, theres a hotel and the rooms are old box cars ive never been in one but the gift shop is pretty cool it has tons of memorbilla of old train shit quite nice ------------------ i like touching girls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted September 9, 2001 Share Posted September 9, 2001 well, you know. i honestly dont care if the whole thing is stolen. its a great post. id like to see more posts like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL MASKO Posted September 10, 2001 Share Posted September 10, 2001 Originally posted by bobobi11: http://wsphotofews.excite.com/012/nz/k3/lm/0254071.jpg'> Man, what I would do to get this flick! A good post indeed. Bumpness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobi11 Posted September 10, 2001 Author Share Posted September 10, 2001 Thanks, did anyone dig on the poem or just the flicks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Europe Posted September 10, 2001 Share Posted September 10, 2001 I just dug the flicks, but you can throw some poems in there, I dont mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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