“Where I’m From” Digital Story.

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Where I’m From

By Greg Keehn

I am from five channel land,

From a time and place called the 70’s.

I am from the region with mills and toxic spills.

I am from the water in Burn’s Ditch.

(Dark, complex, and somewhat merky.)

I am from the county line

the road that divides my homes, the one child

and other adult.

I am from A&P, Tittles, and Topps

with bottle caps, T.V. dinners,

and baseball trading cards

that made who I am today.

I am from Captain Crunch,

And Burger Chef, from G.I. Joes

and from Matchbox Cars,

from pop culture and American Bandstand.

I am from steel mills, my mom and dad’s bills,

and the Tennessee hills

with hillbilly grit and

an immigrant’s drive.

I am from the mill dust, the sand dunes, and the grime

lifted up by my grand pappy’s crane to live in my towns

that lie east of my birthplace, my mother, my provider:

Gary, Indiana, the somewhere at end of my grandparents’ rainbow.