Typewriter Rodeo: West Texas

West Texas

It is hard to tell

Where the road

Ends

And the horizon

Begins

And for some

It might seem

Like a blank space

Daunting

Boundless

A bit

Scary

And it is!

All those things

The same way

An empty notebook

Is open

And waiting

To be filled.

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