Gary Snyder Knows Irony

Post by **still.trucking** » June 24th, 2009, 3:57 am

Why Log Truck Drivers Rise
Earlier Than Students Of Zen

In the high seat, before-dawn dark,
Polished hubs gleam
And the shiny diesel stack
Warms and flutters
Up the Tyler Road grade
To the logging on Poorman creek.
Thirty miles of dust.

There is no other life.

Post by **mtmynd** » June 25th, 2009, 3:08 pm

poets know what truckers already knew
early hours are the freest of roads...

Post by **SmileGRL** » June 25th, 2009, 4:43 pm

trucks on our roadtrip last year...

took this picture at a rest stop.
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i have a better picture of this truck somewhere, but not uploaded.
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Post by **still.trucking** » June 25th, 2009, 6:03 pm

I read that Snyder poem about seven years ago but I just noticed the last couple of lines.

To the logging on Poorman creek.
Thirty miles of dust.

There is no other life.

Knowing Snyder's concern for the environment I think the poem had more to do with the thirty mile plume of dust than the truck.

I read an Anne Sexton poem about thirty years ago but it is only recently that I realized it was not really about trucks either.

No. No.
All lies.
I am a truck. I run everything.
I own you.

“‘And would you mock God’ ‘God is not mocked,except by believers’

"I'm not aware of too many things" ---Eddie Brickell

Early morning is the best time of day for me too.
Cecil you remind me of Snyder

Thanks for the pretty truck pictures SmileGRL
The road still owns me.
But I don't have 18 wheels under me anymore
just the wheels on this chair I am sitting in.

Post by **mtmynd** » June 25th, 2009, 10:17 pm

But I don't have 18 wheels under me anymore
just the wheels on this chair I am sitting in.

do you sit on a five legged chair with casters? Mine is old with four.

Post by **still.trucking** » June 25th, 2009, 11:54 pm

I don't know. I will have to count them and get back to you on that.

It feels like I am sitting in the cab of a needle nosed PeterBilt.

Post by **still.trucking** » June 26th, 2009, 2:40 am

I am all done counting. I got five wheels on my chair. Does that mean I out wheel you?

"If you ain't a trucker you ain't shit" my favorite truckers bumper sticker seen at Dr Dooms truck stop.

"What is the differnece between a cowboy and a trucker?"

A cowboy has the BS on the outside of his boots.

Post by **Nazz** » June 28th, 2009, 2:09 am

Yes he does.

"There is no other life."

Post by **still.trucking** » June 30th, 2009, 4:19 pm

"God is not mocked, except by believers" Anne Sexton knew too.

Post by **mtmynd** » June 30th, 2009, 6:28 pm

I am all done counting. I got five wheels on my chair. Does that mean I out wheel you?

I think it means and I'm unwheel.

Post by **hester_prynne** » June 30th, 2009, 9:41 pm

"Thirty miles of dust"...
I just so love that. I've been thinking about it for days....

H