On election day in the early evening, my husband and I drove down what everyone calls The Lake Road because it is almost on the sandy shore of the lake, the only thing separating it from that shoreline being the pretty big lake houses along that road that have the lake for their backyards. Then, to vote, we turned down Poor Man's Road. As I saw the more rural looking farm houses, I thought to myself how nice it would be to put one of those big lake mansion-like houses on Poor Man's Road. It would be fun to have everyone in these here parts have to drive past it to get to the Veteran's Hall to vote. It would remind people as they go to cast their ballot that they too could live the American Dream. Yeah, right, as if living on Poor Man's Road really means you are poor. Go further down Poor Man's around the twists and turns and up and down the mild hills and you will find larger homes. Well, I caset my ballot this year in hopes I will have a good year of health, wealth, and happiness, and thanked all the veterans who have ever helped our country gain and/or keep its freedoms. Let freedom ring!
The Marine Corp birthday on November 10 is also my birthday. I just want to add here that my dad was a Marine in WWII and I want to thank him and so many others I know and also all those I dont' knoiw for their service, in all armed forces. So here is a link to the Marine Corp Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Qqi-6TOok
In closing...
...oh, wait! Writing these words is not the best way to end an essay if you want to avoid being cliche, and English professors tend to frown on these words used to close an essay, yet other instructors in other fields requiring you to write an essay don't always mind and might even instruct you to do so.
What more can I say about writing here, to further work the craft of writing in? One thing I can tell you here about grammar is to not end a sentence with a preposition like I just did. It has become normal form of casual speech to do so, but in writing usually it is better to still stick to the more proper forms of speech, proper English,
Did I bore you and lose you yet? IF you bore your reader when are writing a book, they will close the book on you (the author) and most frequently not go back to it.
What else can I tell you write hear I mean right here right now? You might ask that if you are not bored yet. Another word of advice is to watch your homonyms, words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
The rhyming in the title might pull readers in. We the people like sing-songy--something we don't completely outgrow. It catches our attention.
Also, there is the irony in the title, in the summary image of the theme. Irony can pull people in. It can make us groan with a moment of recognition of some haoppenstance or it can make us laught, or both. Poor Man's Road as an image here shows and dichotomizes the hopes us Americans have to get rich and escape poverty. When we vote and when we think about getting rich or avoiding poverty, we think of taxes, jobs, raises, inflation and such. It can be a bit humorous used in this respect or it can be serious--it is how you read it, how your mind makes it. To most people it will be both, because it is ironic, and it is because it is ironic that it will bear some humor. It is ironic that Poor Man's Road is where we (some of us, anyway) go to fulfill our American Dream. It brings out our human side that is vulnerable. The irony of life is usually larger than we are. It makes us a little nervous. therefore. Different people might chuckle for different reasons-- a nervous chuckle is still a chuckle, a chuckle over something unpleasant is still an ironic insight.
Another thing I like about the name of the road and my title is that it sounds folkloric (folklore-ish). I love the study of folklore.
Tell me if I have typos. Proofread for me. My eyesight is blurry tonight. Point is, always proofread. Tonight, I honestly can't. Now there's a contradiction for you.!
Note: I came back on November 11 and proofread this and did some revising, It is much better now.
Except for one big thing: You see where I wrote "in closing," then wrote nine more paragraphs before this final tenth? That is a no-no. I am leaving it anyway for the reader to either hate or enjoy.