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    100 Miles Gone
    100 Miles Gone
    100 Miles Gone
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    100 Miles Gone

    By Riley Calzone

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    100 Miles Gone is a series of poems written by Riley Calzone over the course of seven years on the road. A professional traveler with a serious writing habit, the author originally scribbled these poems on napkins at cheap diners, beneath highway overpasses, and on the walls of abandoned buildings and has since collected them for your enjoyment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRiley Calzone
    Release dateOct 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370358496
    100 Miles Gone
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    Riley Calzone

    Riley Calzone is a traveling writer and musician who has been hearing "you should really write a book" from friends, family, and random strangers for years. So that's what she did.

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      Book preview

      100 Miles Gone - Riley Calzone

      This collection was written over the course of 7+ years of intermittent traveling by foot, vehicle, and rail. It contains some fairly explicit references to drug and alcohol use and rape, so consider yourself warned. Also, note that the views, beliefs, and lived experiences described in it are solely my own and definitely aren’t intended to either glamorize or condemn the traveling lifestyle. Ultimately, everybody ends up where they’re going by a different path, and this collection is about mine alone. Thanks for reading it.

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      Songs for Love

      Philadelphia, PA

      Tumbleweeds of trash

      roll down city streets where

      houses crowd together

      tight to keep contained

      within their crumbling walls

      so many lives

      leaking half-eaten

      microwave meals and torn-up,

      coffee-stained dreams.

      The store up the street

      sells quick release at a 200%

      mark-up on EBT.

      You walk in wearing your

      beard stubble, clothes wrinkled

      after wasted nights passed

      outside alone, and I have

      already spent my last 5 bucks

      on a pint of cheap oblivion.

      So I uncork my heart, pour

      smiles into your blue eyes, overflowing

      with surprise behind broken

      glasses, cheap rum our cushion

      on someone else’s dirty

      hardwood floor.

      I arrived alone with Bella

      and my banjo. I leave with you,

      pack up again my prodigal

      life to a convenient size:

      a few pounds of dog food,

      a sleeping bag that smells like piss,

      a notebook full of reassuring lies,

      the tail cut off a long-dead fox,

      which reeked of rot, and anyhow

      was left forgotten beneath

      that bridge when we

      took off out of town.

      I have no change of clothes

      to bring and no toothbrush,

      which is I guess all right because

      you have no bathroom sink

      to leave it next to.

      Baltimore, MD

      Crowds swarm the early-dark city streets,

      form an apathetic horde,

      teeming with anxious apathy.

      Rich yuppies sipping cocktails

      in their fancy bars

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