Thursday, May 30, 2013
Creative Writing: "Welcome to Welch" - Found Poem
We swung north toward Kentucky,
then east.
Instead of the flat desert the land rolled.
We entered hill country,
climbing higher and deeper,
stopping from time to time
to let the Oldsmobile catch its breath.
It was November.
The leaves had turned brown
and a cold mist shrouded the hillsides.
There were streams and creeks everywhere.
The air felt different
It was very still, heavier and thicker,
and somehow darker.
It made us all grow quiet.
“Welcome to Welch!”
Print Media: "Rex Walls" - Obituary
New York City - Rex
Walls, age 59, died today after a severe heart attack. After being
hooked up on life support, it was a certain decision among the family
that he would prefer the plug to be pulled.
Rex was raised in Welch, West Virginia, but unlike most people in the
small town he set his sights elsewhere. After earning his high school
diploma upon the urging of his English teacher, Ms. Bivens, Rex went on
to serve the armed forces. During his time in the forces he would meet
his wife, Rose Mary, and immediately decided to marry her. When they
went on to form a family, it could be described as anything but normal.
Never one for a traditional life, Rex and Rose Mary would spend their
time constantly moving around. Be it for work, mafia research, or just
plain skedaddling. The only thing consistent between locations was Rex’s
love to drink. After trying and failing to quit drinking, it was firmly
establish that Rex was the town drunk wherever he went. And he has
certainly been places, going from the desert regions of California,
Arizona and Nevada to Welch again, and ending his journey here in New
York with his children.
Even
when everyone else seemed to lose hope, Rex could always rely on his
wife and his daughter, Jeannette, to pull through for him in the end.
Though not always the best father figure,, he still was a loving dad. He
always had instilled a sense of hope in his kids and tried to give them
positive things to believe in despite their situation, such as “giving”
his kids stars for Christmas. And he was always a big dreamer, with
ideas as grand as an entire castle made of glass. Regardless of any
trouble he may have caused in life, Rex Walls was a good man who will be
missed in death.
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