Mixed Truths

Living in thirty-nine,
south of forty-nine,
feeling three times as unlucky,
less than seven times as lucky.

The mother b***h couldn't stop
her whimpering and hormonal
outbursts enough to allow
a young couple the chance
to escape their doldrums.

And the tears she wept
left an unprotected
basement floor bathed
in a layer of sickness.

And the pair of
exhausted selves
slaved away to return
their home's lower level
to some semblance
of normalcy.

And luck managed
to be on their side
as they made it
to Morton County.

Along the way,
the husband sees
a cratered landscape
cover in a fluid
foreign to the
lunar landscape.

It never ends,
he says to himself
as they dodge
overflow near a
place where the name
bears no resemblance
to the landscape,
where the springs are
not clear as crystal.

The next day, they
drove further west
to the place named
after the
Marquis De Mores'
lovely wife,
the point about
mixed truths
came to
fullest fruition.

The Queen of the West
asserted the fact that
Dakota means friend
in the same language
that Tatanka means bison.

The twenty-sixth president,
the one that was twice as
unlucky as anybody else,
screamed BULLY whenever
he rode on a horse,
he charged up a hill,
he flew in a plane,
or he built a canal.

Apparently thirty-nine,
south of forty-nine,
isn't the hole of
desolation that some
minds think it is.

Mixed truths,
need more be said.

Reviews

[NightShade]

You know, if history were taught like this, more people would be less ignorant of it. Fantastic lesson Maestro!

[Robin]

more truth in numbers than the labels they slap on to things . my favorites iceland and greenland ...

[OT]

I do love when someone uses normalcy haha - no idea why - just a word I always like to see - "Mixed truths,
need more be said." - sigh - who knows - so much said in those two words - the truth is a truth of subjection - nice job!

[_mal]

Had to turn my music off to read this. Second and third stanza were awesome, putting the numbers in really added something special. You see things clearly