Thank you, Anni. Maybe I'm a masochist because I do like making things difficult for myself. I considered rhyming each line as well, but that was a bridge too far. Perhaps next time...
Oh, Middelburg, I hold no grudge
and you were no worse
than so many Transvaal dorps,
but to be dropped, hitchhiking,
at one end of your dry, dusty,
limitless street,
meant too long a walk
through the town.
Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 12.01.22
Prompt: A place I never want to go to again.
Notes: A dorp is Afrikaans for a small town. Middelburg is such a place in the Eastern Transvaal (as it was then called) and consists of a crossroads along which the town has grown up. If you are hitchhiking through to other places (and I can think of no other reason to go to Middelburg) and were dropped at one end of the town, you are faced with an endlessly long walk to the other side of town and the chance of catching the next ride.
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