Deep sea oil rig worker, train engineer.
Dishwasher or Plongeur (America or France).
Nightwatchmen, janitor or bucaneer,
Alaskan Bush Pilot. Killer (freelance).
Army, Navy, Air Force or the reserves:
grunt, cadet, flyboy, jarhead, deckhand
(The Afghan theater would require the most of my nerve).
Anything to avoid a life perceived as bland.
Lumberjack, clearcutting the great Northwest,
like Gary Snyder, American Zen,
working poet, Man’s man, both at their best,
all of these things could be within my ken --
The morning after, bus windows slicked with rain,
I long for all these ways to flee, in vain.
Dishwasher or Plongeur (America or France).
Nightwatchmen, janitor or bucaneer,
Alaskan Bush Pilot. Killer (freelance).
Army, Navy, Air Force or the reserves:
grunt, cadet, flyboy, jarhead, deckhand
(The Afghan theater would require the most of my nerve).
Anything to avoid a life perceived as bland.
Lumberjack, clearcutting the great Northwest,
like Gary Snyder, American Zen,
working poet, Man’s man, both at their best,
all of these things could be within my ken --
The morning after, bus windows slicked with rain,
I long for all these ways to flee, in vain.
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