Idaho, Illinois, Indiana (INDIANA!), Iowa...

    Idaho

    I think that I have met a disproportionate number of people

    From the Potato State

    Small population, relatively, but not for me

    I have spent little time there

    A little drive here and there, over the years

    But now we send our kids there to be educated

    College

Illinois

    Gone there lately to visit family

    Another way, there is traffic in Chicago

    Driving by, the suburbs and outskirts

    Driving through, late to church, ran the light to 

    Get there sooner, upset the man on the cross walk

    Hotel, not bad, but hard to move the kids

    Walked across the bridge to there, years ago

    With my stepfather

    Tracing history of George Rogers Clark

    

    A book connected to me

    And history

    

    Indiana, Our Indiana

    Everything, everywhere, all at once

    The state and places for me

    I went back last summer

    Did not go to my hometown

    Hung out a few hours away

    And learned, and lived, and worked, and read

    But I watch the games, of the college, the schools

    Even Purdue, lose to UConn

    And there is family and friends

    Iowa

    Known some folks from there

    Good people

    Driven it, seen the fields

    Saw the incredible, incredibly pink northern lights

    Well, in Illinois, on the way to Cedar Rapids and 

    Iowa City

    Places to camp and discover

    Or fly across