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There's only one way I can afford to see what I need to see: a 60-day unlimited pass on Greyhound.
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A quick jaunt to the Port Authority. Ameripass, one bag's all that follows me. Atlanta's first after two nights half asleep. Week in Florida, this time the leaving is real.

Hit Central Time Zone in panhandle, yeah!
All miles, each inch to me is new from here!

New Orleans, I want to eat you with my eyes. Alone, not ready, for now a quick good bye. Station, calling card, payphone news from Dad: Mom's got cancer but "nothing you can do."

Houston feel swallowed, drowned, no where to stay!
Half night to Dallas, next bus Austin way!

Could you be the one? I feel so homey here. Strolling beneath oaks and music everywhere. San Antone just moments till my transfer. Overnight can't see so shock, not gradual.

El Paso sunrise, this landscape's alien!
Glued to windows while others oblivious!

Tucson sleeps in heat, my eyes torn awake. To edge, walk in desert, sure that I'll be back. Phoenix hostel, they tell me downtown's not. Busing through dunes, how can I be ocean-bound.

Down the mountain, well here's my Cali dream!
Can anything live up to decades' expecting?

A day to get through Montana, oh, big sky, why didn't I stop here? Hundreds of miles from anyone I know, it hits me: I've lost the mind I started with. This bus can't turn around, and neither can I.

Thinking back to legendary cities. Diego, LA, June but where is the heat? Yet palms even grow in Frisco's eternal chill. Sacto, get hat stolen, guess I'll skip capital.

Eugene's so green, I should feel most serene!
Exhaustion warps me, think, "What am I doing here?"

Moment passed, I'm good, not heard much about Portland. Like it but must keep rolling, new country: Vancouver on 4th, my own kind of freedom. Shame to end detained at the border for nothing.

Seattle I imagine new life among your hills!
After Tampa summers, maybe feeling's real.

Fargo longest stop in days, mostly laundry. Minneapolis, warmest people yet to meet.

Chicago, now this is what cities should be!
But winters worse than youth are not my destiny.
Final long haul to known stench: NYC.
Back to Norwalk, figure out what's in front of me….!

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from There's No Place Like Know Where?, released June 22, 2017
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Photo: Outside Kennedy Park, southwest of Tucson, AZ, 6/16/96.

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