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thumb-stuck thru the middle

one day to tallahassee
two to yosemite
one to portland
day n a half to denver
border to border
coast to coast
big thumb

eight fucking days
contemplation
along I-35
70 out o kans's city
that reeks o carcass
rot n dog food
okie even worse
       seein images
       masks n
       license plates

what w’d jesus
do indeed…?
hmmm…
i flew signs
needin water
not money r handout
        only finding
        birds n fingers
        changing lanes
                     away

           pious
            pissy
             children

dank n liquid
shat the inbred
crossed lawns
motels n bro-tels
        careenin n  a-peekin
the rubber-
necked bastards!

got out with
a girl from
Seguine
       she hated you
                          too

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How was my language use?
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Last few words: 
if you ever hitch-hike avoid kansas and oklahoma
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Comments

It is so easy to lose the formatting and you must not rely on it for the poems value. Fortunately you don't here, it only enhances it.

I thought hitch-hiking was all but dead. It is in Australia, I hitched everywhere in the '70s. Now no-one will pick you up.

Your use of dialect is pretty good, not sure how to improve it, I'm so hopeless at it I never even try.

This poem stands alone but I can well imagine it as part of a series or extended.

Thinking on it, I reckon you would be less tempted to use shaping if you learned a bit about meter.

cheers,
Jess
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