At a corner store, built somewhere
around 1959
There’s still a pay phone where
calls once could
be placed for a dime,
it stands beneath a rusted out
metal Coca-Cola sign
By: J.N.R Dutton
Tag: history
Remembering Oklahoma
The year was 1995 and
I remember seeing news footage live
as the Oklahoma Murrah building
was destroyed as domestic terror
hit heartland America
in such a devastating way
168 people died that day
because of the derangement
of Timothy McVeigh
and America was forever changed
By: J.N.R Dutton
Sky High
There was a place & time
When you could get
ice cream soda for a dime
Yes, a mere ten cents,
and a hotel room for rent
At $6 bucks a night
That’s no lie, & I
Have to wonder why
Everything these days
Is sky high, it just doesn’t quite
Seem right
By:J.N.R Dutton
The Jump
An iconic moment in history,
One of the coolest to me,
Even though I wasn’t born to see it
It was recorded for posterity
the year was 1974,
Robert Knievel attempted
What had never been done before,
Jumping the Snake River Canyon/gorge
By:J.N.R Dutton
Mission Bell
Anton could set a watch by that old mission bell
It rang every day at high noon twelve
Until one day, someone came to town
to haul it away, so they tore it down
A piece of history just tossed away
Like scrap heap metal, what a terrible shame
By:J.N.R Dutton
Remembering September 11, 2001
It was a dark day in September
When those towers fell
What I saw on t.v. that day
Looked like a scene straight out of hell
All the devastation shocked me to my core
but it seems so many don’t even remember it anymore
By:J.N.R Dutton
Flood
A Pennsylvania town, serene
but then a flood washes through
like a disaster movie scene
I’ve heard the story,
Though I wasn’t there that day,
A dam exploded, so people say
Over 2,000 people washed away
By:J.N.R Dutton
The Sam Cooke Mystery
Sam Cooke was reknown for the way he could sing
that’s an amazing legacy,
but his death is one of history’s enduring mysteries
It’s a tragedy that will always bother me
Especially, that we may never know everything
By:J.N.R Dutton
Ludicrous
Recently I heard the most ludicrous claim
I mean it was literally insane,
but it doesn’t surprise me in this day & age
What was it, You may wonder?
I’ll explain:
Someone said teaching history
Led to “white privilege”
& hatred on the base of race
By:J.N.R Dutton
Indelible Impressions
1977, a plane was going down,
Headed like a wrecking ball
for the Mississippi ground
Several musicians in their prime
Doing everything they could to get out of it alive
I wasn’t even born yet,
but I’ve heard about it enough times
Things like that tend to haunt the mind,
I found it absolutely terrifying
It is one of the prime reasons for my own fear of flying
By:J.N.R Dutton
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