road 5

[creativesoul]

the farm was in oregon- only thing close to it was a boat landing- accross the river lay the industry of a world.. the smokestacks seemed to puff smoke like the toothless men she saw hobbling around that little town in overalls and suspenders smelling like a paper mill and the bar- the women were canning and preparing for the winter time- they rode next to the husbands in trucks to farm meetings and knowledgeable male strategies that seemed to breathe on me like some ancient finnish church sermon- where the women were not supposed to sweat or play cards and everyone travels in a pack and if you dont look like them they seem suspicious of you......... if you do not attend church or raise chickens and share eggs.being from california and having buffalo made them wonder- but those days are over now- it took five years for them to start singing ' buffalo gal' to me-then there were the days when i just could not bring myself to tell them the 'truth' as i saw it- they seemed so worn down and like all that hard work just seemed to sit on them like a bronze sculpture, they just might be too weak to notice was on their shoulders- a modern heavy war like shape of a world they fought to preserve- that would be solid in a world of chaos and liquid, the goverment was taking the fishing rights away now- and the gilnetters were saddened by the logging industry failing them.==now they were taking the salmon away.the older men stood around together and seemed lost in the past- uneasy about the future-the women made the most digusting fish stuff and they thought this liv-idi-quis stuff was tasty and traditional- the apples were falling on the ground and no body wanted to pick them..there seemed to be a laplander soni moment where the oldet souls came and visited and all that tradition and growing up soggy on the dykes was wearing on that lil community- if they knew where i had been- and what i saw- i think they might be terribly frightened= so i was quiet- and i smiled and admired the way they did things- it seemed the right thing to do-