Glitchhiker

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Thoreau || Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Thoreau

no one stops

not an indigo, denim moon

not even a foster grant sun

no one

even though i stand here with an outstretched thumb

just as i'm about to give up

wait, someone's coming by

with a window rolled down in an old truck

acting all coy

as i hear a familiar, alluring voice say

goodnight john boy

Author's Note

“I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way...But lo! men have become the tools of their tools...We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

To be wild n free is Gods gift
Man has made prisons for themselves
In their gilded gold cages of loans to banks
Yes govts encouraged all these huge house loans
Give me an open road a little car and a picnic basket and rug and stop at the river
Simple life
I think things went pear shaped after the internet and mobile phones introduced

Loved your poem it left the reader many ways to interpret

John boy at end classic
I loved the Walton’s

[Pete]

i love your interpretation and share in how you feel - it seems that the more technology we have and the more advanced things get, the less humanity we have. more and more i find myself harkening back to simpler days or at least a time when people meant more to each other. stopping to smell the roses is so underappreciated! thanks so much for the great, insightful share julie ... :)

[Pete]

... greed is one of the seven deadly sins ...

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Thanks yes the fifties sixties seventies great years
I was born in 59
Baby boomer read moreThanks yes the fifties sixties seventies great years
I was born in 59
Baby boomer

I watched the original movie of Mildred Pearce and watched her add up in her account book for the restaurant in pencil and pick up her old black phone and then she went to her friend a real estate agent to buy a house or cafe he had to Mulo through a large paper digest of handwritten properties with pictures of the houses pasted on pages
Now it’s click click copy paste save on computers
Yes a lot has changed not siesta for the best
It’s (tech) freed up our time but also overtaken our lives

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Typos Mulo is mull

Siesta is always.

[Pete]

i was born in 65 and well remember. i hardly recognize the world anymore ...

[Sami Khalil]

I feel the poet is hardening to the simple days, simple pleasures and simple humanity. Those technologies will become rusted metal or fail us. Relationships endure and humanity survives.
Marvelously written sir Pete.

[Pete]

thanks for sharing the spot on observations. i don't think people realize how much simple humanity is stolen from us with each new technological advance. it now seems as though we were all born with cell phones attached to our hands. give me the "good ole days" ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

I totally agree Pete. Technology was meant to aid us; it is becoming our master. Kind like money and us with its influence and such.

[Pete]

nowadays i go in the grocery store and there are hardly any workers. self checkout, scanners, pay with plastic (swipe and go). the world i grew up in no longer exists and it is not for the better in my opinion. we have become slaves to these ways. i concur, there are negatives to all of this which no one measures ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

Technology is trying to replace humans. They will put more value on robots vs us. But in the end, can't replace humanity.