Episode #017 I-74 Streetcorners of America Poem - Charlie Rossiter

In this special Father's Day episode, Connor and Jack dig into "I-74 Streetcorners of America Poem (Written on the Road Between Albany Illinois and Albany Indiana" by Charlie Rossiter. For Charlie's podcast, go here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/poetry-spoken-here/id1030829938?mt=2 I-74 Streetcorners of America Poem (Written on the Road Between Albany Illinois and Albany Indiana, 10/95) By: Charlie Rossiter Sun rise over the Rock River and all over America people wake to face the day as if nothing were happening while all around them mountains are pushed up and weathered down rivers flex and flow new life is born at a truckstop on I-74 outside of Kickapoo someone is pumping gas into a diesel engine that spent the weekend in Colorado someone’s heart got broken last night in Mississippi and before the day is over someone in Cincinnati will fall in love someone’s had enough and leaving home in Topeka, someone in Takoma’s got the blues it’s like a carnival out there, a casino which way the cards will fall is anybody’ call one thing’s for sure we’re all in this together at least I’m in how about you c’mon ante up and deal Find us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/close-talking/id1185025517?mt=2 Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at [email protected].

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