Absurdist Kansas

ABSURDIST KANSAS

“mastering the past

and inventing the future"

—Edward Albee

What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless 
Prairie plains of Kansas?

What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Burlington-Santa Fe tracks?
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What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Golden Kansas wheatfields?

What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Meandering dirt country roads?
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What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Gone Hwy 50 Drive-In sky?

What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Cottonwood & Neosho Rivers?
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What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Z-Bar Ranch acres & acres?

What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Topocosmic Sixth & Commercial?
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What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Doodlebug Night of my Boyhood?

What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Freight train whistles at night?
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What could be simply more—
Absurdist than the endless
Kansas historical landscape?

My own stupid & ignorant—
Human existence just a brief
Wink of an eye in time?