CHRISTMAS WEEK - Monday Before...

This is the week for trains and buses, planes and cars... 
everyone going home or maybe leaving home

The red glow of a lunar exclipse at 3am on a deserted highway... 
deserted rest stop... 
closed restaurant... 
vending machine with one bag of chips left.....

5AM IT'S TIME TO GO

5am

the car is starting

snow is falling

it's time to go

and no matter where

the road will take you

how many towns

you will pass through

Gander, St. John's, Halifax, Moncton

the star inside you

brightly shining

always burning

to guide you to

ralph allfonso

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LITTLE ANGELS

Little angels

Spread our wings

To and fro

In fallen snow

And God will shine

His stars more bright

To guide our way

Back home tonight

1. ralph alfonso

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IT'S OK, IT'S JUST A CIGARETTE

it's ok

it's just a cigarette

roll the window down

let the wind suck it all away

like everything else

i've thrown down this highway

gas station, trees

runaway girls sitting on their backpacks

that's the way it goes

like the coffee's too hot

the donut's too dry

it's ok

you're my best friend

listening to another old man

complaining about his teeth

i used to love the radio

i used to live for looking up at stars

listening to A.M. guitars

but now

my head's down to the wheel

4:am rolling out of the

parking lot

is this really my life

maybe i should've stayed in line

the next guy got lucky

it's ok

he ain't going nowhere

and they say

what you notice first

is the air

cold and pure inside your lungs

100 miles an hour

silos and farms and trucks for sale

rusting in the yard

but it's all a laugh

where are we now

does it matter?

as long as we're not where

we were

ralph alfonso