Small Town U.S.A

Pizza parlors,
muffler shops
7 Elevens
and I-hops

Boarded windows,
shuttered stores
Cracked windows,
unlocked doors

Dry cleaners,
Laundromats
Empty motels
Vacant flats

One street towns
No traffic lights
No city sounds
Few family fights

Friendly dogs
Friendlier people
Highest thing
Grey slate steeple

Houses with porches
rustic family farm
Weather vanes on roofs
Old American charm

Grain silos
Rusty water tower
Windmills
Water power

Sincere supplication
Sunday school prayer
Organ music, seeping out
Rising into clover scented air

Small town America
Barns and bales of hay
People still say “Good Morning”…in
…Small town U.S.A…

poem by David Whalen
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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