Weirdo

And getting up here I say
It is the best road trip in America
Soaring through nature’s finest show.
Denali, the great one,
Soaring under the midnight sun.

And then the extremes.

In the winter time
It’s the frozen road that is competing
With the view of ice fogged frigid beauty
The cold though, doesn’t it split
The Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?

And then in the summertime
Such extreme summertime
About a hundred and fifty degrees hotter
Than just some months ago
Than just some months from now
With fireweed blooming along the frost heaves
And merciless rivers that are rushing and carving
And reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins.

It is as throughout all Alaska
That big wild good life teeming along the road
That is north to the future.

— Sarah Palin, Farewell Speech

I do hope she pursues her poetry.