A Town For All Seasons

from Road Movie by MDH

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"feels winter at last"

About Front Royal, the “gateway to the blue-ridge mountains”. Suffers from the same golden age of tourism hangover that places like Margate and Great Yarmouth do in England, but it’s a lot nicer than either of those two places. It’s tagline is “A Town For All Seasons”, and is emblazoned on many lampposts and signs, but doesn’t quite ring true as we wandered around an empty town that looked to be stuck in the “off-season”.

“The receipt that barman gave us had us marked down as ‘TABLE NO.: 3GUYS’. He was a fairly depressive-looking sort, a fine figure of a white-haired 50-something fireman type, but clearly weary and just-doing-his-job. He was pleasant, helpful and well-humoured but one sensed that he really had to dig deep for the energy for it. We were just 3 guys – another 3 to a town born and raised, and arguably sickened by people just passing through.”

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a town for all seasons, untouched by the flood
a town square of grandsons clots like old blood
who’s down at the Tavern? what’s on at the flicks?
a town for all seasons – a nickname that sticks

a town for all seasons, it’s in all of the books
the way that it welcomes and the way that it looks
it’s tired of your custom but glad just the same
it’s sad that you’re leavin but happy you came

a town for all seasons, we’d sit watching the game
before the foreclosures did you look the same?
or did you smell like Spielberg and Hollywood lawns?
a town for all seasons but the good times have gone

a town for all seasons, I’ll think on you at length
about all of your shadows and all of your strength
we saw through peeled paintwork to your picturesque past
a town for all seasons feels winter at last

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from Road Movie, released September 1, 2014

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