Texas

Long straight roads

Driving on the wrong side

Miles and miles of pasture

Interrupted only

By factory smell;

Sulphurous or manure

Speed past at fifty-five.

Glorious sun, hot and humid

Surrounds until suddenly

A blackness descends

From nowhere bringing

An almighty storm

Wicked but refreshing

As the visibility disappears.

Texas, the Lone Star State

A law unto itself,

Just like the movies

J.R. at every corner

With a welcome ever so friendly

“Howdy y’all”

The rain is like London Town, the welcome the opposite.

18^th June, Edna, Texas, USA.

-Richard