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“… I-10 eastbound at the I-45 interchange, there’s an eighteen wheeler overturned. HPD has all but one lane closed while they clear the wreckage. Traffic is backed up all the way to the west loop and building.”
Houston skyline just before sunset in the early 1980s As the radio blares, my mind automatically goes into [...] Unpainted walls reflect mood as I move through unfamiliar streets. Evidences of hard times speak through walls of gray. The untold story of better times quietly reveals itself in faded signs of past commerce on buildings long since abandoned or appropriated for lesser function. Economic depression confronts me on all sides in spite of the [...] Ghosts of barbed wire fences flow past in the periphery as miles slide by. Headlights struggle to penetrate the blackness of night. Years remembered find conscious thoughts while the sleeping country road keeps silent company and the hours melt away.
Port Lavaca, Texas piers at daybreak Lonesomeness grows in yesterday’s memories haunted by family [...] |
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