1000 Horsepower

My answer to Noel HC's driving down the highway to George Strait.

Last days of summer before
the Polar vortex rolls through,
in my car with the windows down,
stranded random thoughts of you,
so simple to just keep going down the road
see where it goes
where the river flows,
stop thinking about everyone
and everything but me,
take me cross country
to the other sea,
but no,
I have too much responsibility,
so instead I crank it up another notch,
and head home to crack open the Scotch.

Author's Note

Reviews

[Susan Beth Horvath]

You have drawn me in with this very vivid and enchanting piece, very well written

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks for the words.

[Frieda P]

That must be a brand I know not of, 'responsible' Scotch....I gotcha...my poison would be vodka though. I live this one....!

[Lyn Anderson]

Well, Martini, Red Wine, and Margarita didn't fit, sometimes you gotta bend a little for the rhyme -- you don't do that very much, I know:)

[Frieda P]

I'd rather drink than rhyme. haha

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A woman after mine own heart!!!

[Lyn Anderson]

hey, read "Dear Jim" if you want to laugh.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I have!!!!

[Lyn Anderson]

I wasn't talking to you, but to Frieda, the silly glitch in the feed, we were talking over top each other:)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Oops sorry.................

[Lyn Anderson]

Not your fault, just a silly glitch.

[Rene Salinas]

As I consider my words I have to say that this is an attractive writing. The desire for liberation is intense and the sense of urgency demanding. There is no time to waste really, but the "stop thinking about everyone, everything but me" is to me a defining moment. So it is that whisky comes to represent a moment of relaxation and reflection.

Cheers to that KL

Thankyou

[Lyn Anderson]

Yep, exactly, it ain't freedom, but it provides some semblance of peace in the interim.

[Lauriegirl]

This is a beautiful peace..full of depth and very thought provoking..Great write

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much, but what did you really think of it? :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

love it...too much responsibility so i head home to the Scotch...:)))

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much. I had to end it with a shot of reality.:)

[Matching Socks]

Sounds like a country song, which should be right up Noel's alley. :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Country and Godsmack. They would think that's funny.:)

[NoelHC]

Uh, yeah it is so tempting to just keep the pedal to the metal, and keep on going.
Well stated, I enjoyed this one a lot.

This song would probably cause me to keep me driving!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8UYGQeavRw

[Lyn Anderson]

Ha ha, did I make your ears bleed? xo!

[NoelHC]

Naaah, I listen to all kinds of music, my neighbor blasts death metal all the time, I freak him out when I name the band!

[Lyn Anderson]

That's great, I like the Crue song, thanks! I was more of a Quiet Riot girl in high school, with a little Sex Pistols, Prince and Psychedelic Furs thrown in for weirdness.

[Lydia Shutter]

Responsibility puts our feet in cement shoes at times, does it not? How nice it would be to get in the car and drive and leave your worries behind.....but that is just not possible. The scotch will make it a tad easier...till the morning when the hangover hits. Melancholy and just downright sad. You have a great way of expressing emotions, Mandy. Lydi**

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, I appreciate it. But the music is rockingly upbeat. That's how I survive. On coffee and obnoxious music.:)

[Lydia Shutter]

We do what we "gotta"

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Whoa this went in one direction and then realed us in in a completley different tack. The ending is sad and trapped and so real.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, well, sad, but true, and not really good to run away, now is it? I am not really a Scotch drinker, but Martini or Margarita didn't fit.:)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Well I gatherd that, The scotch is for me to drown my sorrows.