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MINNESOTA
Siberian express from the northwest
Blizzard’s fury descends without mercy
Great Gitche-Gumee lake effect
Unpredictable ferocious flurries
Sodas in quilted parkas
With balaclava covered faces
Look like walking grenades
In terrorist masquerade
Thirty below wind-chill
Trapped in a polar vortex
Instantly freezing exposed flesh
Amusing King Boreas Rex
Chisel ice from the windshield
Kick snirtbergs from the wheel wells
Now’s the time to ride and slide
Now’s the time to do or die
Heavy vertical blow
Zero visibility on the road
Just follow the other guy
He’ll know where to go
Go slow you’ll get stuck
Go fast spin like a top
Oncoming traffic will crush
White knuckles a must
The temperature drops into double digits
Hospitals man surgeons in shifts
“If flesh turns black, we must hack”
Noses, ears, fingers, toes, an occasional penis
Causalities mount from fridge
Ice blocks break from building ridges
Killing pedestrians in an instant
On a lake a Subaru becomes a submarine
Teen couple parks on secluded lane
Succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning
Found days later in naked embrace
Thawing on a table in a city garage
On average colder then Alaska
Frozen like a witch’s tit
Minnesota can be one
Unforgiving son-of-a-bitch!
Blizzard’s fury descends without mercy
Great Gitche-Gumee lake effect
Unpredictable ferocious flurries
Sodas in quilted parkas
With balaclava covered faces
Look like walking grenades
In terrorist masquerade
Thirty below wind-chill
Trapped in a polar vortex
Instantly freezing exposed flesh
Amusing King Boreas Rex
Chisel ice from the windshield
Kick snirtbergs from the wheel wells
Now’s the time to ride and slide
Now’s the time to do or die
Heavy vertical blow
Zero visibility on the road
Just follow the other guy
He’ll know where to go
Go slow you’ll get stuck
Go fast spin like a top
Oncoming traffic will crush
White knuckles a must
The temperature drops into double digits
Hospitals man surgeons in shifts
“If flesh turns black, we must hack”
Noses, ears, fingers, toes, an occasional penis
Causalities mount from fridge
Ice blocks break from building ridges
Killing pedestrians in an instant
On a lake a Subaru becomes a submarine
Teen couple parks on secluded lane
Succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning
Found days later in naked embrace
Thawing on a table in a city garage
On average colder then Alaska
Frozen like a witch’s tit
Minnesota can be one
Unforgiving son-of-a-bitch!
Published 11th Apr 2015
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17th Jun 2015 1:30am
I've never been to Minnesota
but I got dam close I lived in
Galesburg IL for 5 years and over in Monmouth
in the late 80's and early 90's
I owned a fine Victorian house that needed work
and went crazy and sold it blowed the money
but I've been all over and I honestly loved
that town and the country around there
I think about going back there all the time
it got almost as cold as you talk about in
your poem
say did you ever hear of a poet James Riley
from Indianapolis he is called the children's
poet...however they buried his erotica poems
and cleaned up his image he was a wild dope addict too he made up the erotica and performed
on the medicine snows selling dope back in the
late 1800's I know an antique dealer who has a book of them in Galesburg. they are absolutely
something else but he did write some fantastic
poems for the kiddies.
but I got dam close I lived in
Galesburg IL for 5 years and over in Monmouth
in the late 80's and early 90's
I owned a fine Victorian house that needed work
and went crazy and sold it blowed the money
but I've been all over and I honestly loved
that town and the country around there
I think about going back there all the time
it got almost as cold as you talk about in
your poem
say did you ever hear of a poet James Riley
from Indianapolis he is called the children's
poet...however they buried his erotica poems
and cleaned up his image he was a wild dope addict too he made up the erotica and performed
on the medicine snows selling dope back in the
late 1800's I know an antique dealer who has a book of them in Galesburg. they are absolutely
something else but he did write some fantastic
poems for the kiddies.
20th Jun 2015 1:52pm
14th Jul 2016 9:18pm
Yeah...beautiful area, but this level of cold is why I moved farther south. Great write! ☺
Willow
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