{"id":20902,"date":"2018-09-01T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/?p=20902"},"modified":"2018-09-01T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:43:05","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/2018\/09\/poetry-in-motion\/time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SeptPoem1\"<\/a>Twenty-five years have come and gone, it really doesn\u2019t seem that long. But look at everything that\u2019s changed, and how the world\u2019s been rearranged.<\/p>\n

In \u201893 I was just sixteen, a man a child or in-between? Driving trucks was still a dream, and born was 10-4 Magazine.<\/p>\n

In \u201894 while still in school, I found a rig I thought was cool. I built that old Freightshaker ride, and rolled to school with trucker pride.<\/p>\n

In \u201895 I hammered down, and tossed aside my cap and gown. With high school in my rear-view mirror, I headed out to who knows where.<\/p>\n

My very first time at Louisville, with lots of lights and polished steel. Big chrome stacks and mud flap chicks, that was way back in ninety-six.<\/p>\n

Wanderlust, Lord I had plenty, in \u201897 I turned twenty. Holyfield would lend an ear, to Tyson\u2019s appetite, that year.<\/p>\n

The Seinfeld show would be no more, and diesel was a dollar-four. In \u201898 the world would learn, that Bill got caught with his intern.<\/p>\n

And in my own relationship, I shared some vows and kissed her lips. I married that sweet girl of mine, in the summertime of \u201999.<\/p>\n

We were fed a great big scare, that planes would fall out of the air. Remember how we all freaked out, when Y2K came about?<\/p>\n

The Towers fell and smoke would rise, tears fell from a million eyes. The world was changed for everyone, in September of two-thousand one.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas dealt with fighting bikers, truckers caught the DC snipers. Do you remember Pepsi Blue? That was back in 2002.<\/p>\n

A blackout in New England states, another shuttle met its fate. Harley turned a century old, sometime in 2003, I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

\"SeptPoem2\"<\/a>The HOS rules changed again, allowing drivers 11 and 10. And look what Janet Jackson wore, to Super Bowl two-thousand four.<\/p>\n

Relief supplies came in by truck, when Rita and Katrina struck. YouTube\u2019s born and Carson died, and that was in 2005.<\/p>\n

In \u201806 I was blessed some more, to grace the pages of 10-4. And I admit that I was thrilled, to learn Saddam Hussein was killed.<\/p>\n

L.A. fires were burning hotter, I-35 fell into the water. By the time two-thousand seven was completed, sulfur in our fuel was being deleted.<\/p>\n

In 2008 I can still remember, becoming a 10-4 family member. A monthly page they offered me, to share my art and poetry.<\/p>\n

Enter in two-thousand nine, the economy was in decline. Jobs were leaving by the scores, and Arrow Trucking shut their doors.<\/p>\n

In twenty-ten I pressed my luck, I quit my job and bought a truck. The Gulf of Mexico was screwed, with tons and tons of thick black crude.<\/p>\n

It was the year that SnapChat was created, and Bin Laden was eliminated. Two-thousand and eleven would prove, that America was back on the move.<\/p>\n

Deeper in this poem I delve, I lost my dad in twenty-twelve. Hurricane Sandy hit the shore, Barak Obama\u2019s back for more.<\/p>\n

In twenty-thirteen we took a chance, truckers tried to take a stance. But protests on the DC belt, arguably were barely felt.<\/p>\n

In 2014 ISIS came to power, we opened up the Freedom Tower. We filmed each other drenched with ice, and Robin Williams took his life.<\/p>\n

Kyle Busch took the NASCAR cup, Kermit and the Pig broke up. Twenty-fifteen was moving at a break-neck pace, when Donald Trump entered the race.<\/p>\n

Autonomous trucks had hit the scene, with a load of beer in twenty-sixteen. ELD\u2019s were now required, to make sure we ain\u2019t driving tired.<\/p>\n

The eclipse of 2017, kneeling from the football teams. We could sit and wonder why, or just keep letting miles go by.<\/p>\n

This year marks a milestone, oh how quickly time has flown. And on this 25th silver scene, congrats to 10-4 Magazine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-five years have come and gone, it really doesn\u2019t seem that long. But look at everything that\u2019s changed, and how the world\u2019s been rearranged. In \u201893 I was just sixteen, a man a child or in-between? Driving trucks was still a dream, and born was 10-4 Magazine. In \u201894 while still in school, I found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poetry-in-motion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20905,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions\/20905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tenfourmagazine.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}