die east coast

Recounting things I've seen and places I've been. Vaguely inspired by the works of Townes Van Zandt.

spent a long winter in brownsville sleeping under porches
headed down to the junction during
spring thaw
hopped a freight southbound
rode those steel wheels til they fell off in portsmouth

never knew a love from the atlantic
new england full of bitter embrace
followed a wind to troy and kept a-movin' until
I found a friend at last in the lehigh valley
his name was codeine

crash and burned on the side of highway 83
home has been inside of a brown paper bag
the susquehanna had never looked better
as it did that late july night

washed up in the chesapeake
found myself hitching westward on
a black and white thoroughbred
stepped off in kansas city

my friend, well he's still around
scratches at my skin and
keeps my mouth dry
been laying in a farmers field
thinking about that cold maine sky