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Listening to Arlo play his railroad stories<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n why is\u00a0 the 60’s, 70’s<\/p>\n American country music<\/p>\n so often<\/p>\n on the road,<\/p>\n forever talking<\/p>\n light rides<\/p>\n hitchhiking<\/p>\n across the land?<\/p>\n they sing<\/p>\n with an eye on<\/p>\n bus-stops cold<\/p>\n with horizons<\/p>\n slung between<\/p>\n the dream<\/p>\n and the sun<\/p>\n neon signs<\/p>\n for roadside inns<\/p>\n and dust flying full<\/p>\n everywhere<\/p>\n Mississippi Texas<\/p>\n Tennessee<\/p>\n they write<\/p>\n always between<\/p>\n two mornings<\/p>\n of disappearing<\/p>\n railroad blues<\/p>\n or till the next ride down to<\/p>\n the San Francisco lights.<\/p>\n the minute<\/p>\n you heard them,<\/p>\n they were already<\/p>\n shuffling down<\/p>\n a (third) beer in hand<\/p>\n to some<\/p>\n odd galaxy of city-streets<\/p>\n all they wept for<\/p>\n will float beneath<\/p>\n the young night-sky<\/p>\n of their America.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sthira Bhattacharya<\/strong> is an undergraduate student of English Literature in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Much of her writing traces lines across the three cities she has known in bits – Delhi, Kolkata and her hometown Dhanbad in Eastern India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Listening to Arlo play his railroad stories why is\u00a0 the 60’s, 70’s American country music so often on the road, forever talking light rides hitchhiking across the land? they sing with an eye on bus-stops cold with horizons slung between the dream and the sun neon signs for roadside inns and dust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5089,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}