The Journey Jones

I got the journey jones
      I want to eat distance
Chew on the miles
      The in-between
Mainline the bee line
      Into the interior
            Of America
      The vast interiors
Of a nation

Head west into the wilds
      Feast my eyes
            On the sights and sounds
      That Lewis & Clark themselves
Yearned to see

Up to the headwaters
      Of the muddy Missouri
Up where the Rockies
      Reach the skies
Up where even chip monks
      Have contracts as sherpas
            To eastern greenhorns
      Like me

Who have the journey jones
      Craving distance
Hungering for miles
      The in-between
Mainlining the bee line
      Into the interior
            Of America
      The vast interiors
Of a nation


For Conversations With Walt
Denis J. Kelly
June 29, 2011