Day 4 - Slam Idol O.W.C.

Here’s the audio and text for today’s version of the poem. Not too happy with the current additions, so this is definitely going to change.

 32 Degrees and 64 Questions

This is not the best time to be
Contemplating the meaning of life
It’s 32 degrees out and the earth
Is frozen beneath my feet and
This weight on my shoulders is pressing
Pressing me down
Pressing me forward
Worrying me deep

Red gas can in hand and
Black wool cap pulled over my ears to
Block out the cold nipping at my lobes
To block out the sounds of my thoughts
To block out the questions in my mind
On why

And the chill in the air
Fails to take the heat
The heat the burns in my soul
Like the pilot flame
On a flame thrower
It waits

Against the sound of 18 wheelers
Family vans and
The sounds of my boots crunching
Snow and gravel
Comes the gentle, bubbling trickle
Of a fresh winter stream

 

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