rapid city nowhere

 
Last summer
We drove across the country
Just the wife and me
 
10,000 miles
31 states
Three months on the road
 
I now know why people don’t live
In South Dakota
 
Hot, dry dusty
Windy as hell
 
Black Hills are nice
But after seeing Mt. Rushmore
There is not much left to do
 
Rapid City did not impress me
Nor did Sioux Falls
 
And wall drugs
Well the free water was nice
 
But it is a nothing town
In a nothing state
On the edge of the badlands
 
And the Sioux reservation
 
There is a reason the Indians live there
No one else wanted the land
And they are warehoused there
 
So I drove through Rapid City
And thought that it is the heart of Trump Land
The land of the forgotten
The left behind
 
Just another nothing burger of a State
In the middle of nowhere
Truly flyover country