Entrapment
The city lights are tempting–each theater and store,
but when my outer life is rich, my inner life’s a bore.
Do I want to create my life or should it create me?
And which is which? I do not know. Which helps me most to be?
I guess I need a balance, but each choice is a trap.
While I think it over, perhaps I’ll have a nap.
Sometimes the truth is found in dreams. Perhaps that will work now.
But once the “what” occurs to me, I’ll have to dream the “how.”
I dream empty buildings and abandoned avenues,
stores filled with pretty dresses, refrigerators, shoes.
Wind through broken windows and grass through broken walks.
All those empty radios where no one ever talks.
While somewhere in the country, away from smog and fumes
those busy cities of the past are sealed away in rooms
writing morning pages and playing with their dogs,
recording things they used to do in their daily blogs.
If I don’t join the city, if I choose to be free,
perhaps the busy city will choose to come join me!
I don’t recall who sent me this podcast, or how. Could it be AI? If you’d like you can listen to it here:
(Please let me know if this podcast link doesn’t work. I’ve been wrestling with it for hours now!)
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
When I clicked the link it said page not found.
Good poem, Judy, and I love that picture of your paradise.
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You mean you couldn’t hear the podcast? Just click on the arrow on the bar. It works for me.
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There is no arrow on the bar or a bar at all from what I see.
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Ok I’m doing another post. See if this works..One minute. Gotta add the poem.
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The hyperlink is right under the second photo.
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That’s what I clicked on and I tried twice. Sounds like Fandango is having the same result.
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Judy, I’m getting the same thing. When I click on the link : https://judydykstrabrown.com/?p=180925, I, too, am getting “Page Not Found.”
And I know where the top picture was taken. I-80 East in San Francisco, heading toward the Bay Bridge.
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Okay I redid the blog. Will you see if you can see the podcast now? And thanks for giving me the info. I’m going to shut down this particular blog now..See if the new one works.
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The Treasure Island sign was a dead giveaway, right? The bay area was my old stomping grounds. We did lots of shows there and had good friends in Berkeley and Richmond.
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I see the playbar now and am listening to it. Thanks for re-posting 🙂
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