In early August, my wife and I took a long weekend to Nashville. I wrote the little poem here about it , because I realized that I was in a creative rut. I've been mulling over the whole thing for over 2 months now, and sorta realized that Holland, in essence, has no culture. We stayed in a hotel near Midtown Nashville, not far from Vanderbilt and not far from the main drag of Broadway. The hotel we were in was built in the 70s, but renovated and doubled in size in the 2010s. We walked to the Exit/In for a show and walked past an entire block of businesses that was burned out, graffitied over, and in general disrepair. But, they almost all had old gig posters and stickers all over the windows. The reason I was drawn to the Exit/In was because of the book Outlaw (ISBN 0062038192) and the stories of the venue that Kris Kristofferson, in particular, told . We walked from our hotel past Vanderbilt University and saw The Parthenon...got to readi...