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Michigan by Mike Dagher-Margosian


By The Center for Michigan - January 2, 2008

Aren't the names in Michigan misleading? I mean,

Bruce doesn't live in Willis,

There aren't any buffalo in Michigamme

The teams from Winn always tie, but they did play the games with spalding stuff,

All the white halls, pigeons, pines, and clouds are all but white

There aren't any wells in Delta, Marquette, or Tuscola

the lake is walled in so no one can get in.

ubly  is beautiful

the trufant of the paper is here

there are three oaks  for each of the  three rivers. But these weren't regular oaks, they were royal oaks

you have Tecumseh this thing

Edanville, which was just a tad below the garden,

Ed wanted more

Blank was at the helm of elm hall

But things were far from well

Filer city is reknown for the secretary skills. They get a lot of filion done there.

You can find Frankenmuth. Well lets go to muth then.

If you're from farmington you should get free soil and freeland, but if you're a sailor you should get Freeport

Baldwin moved to Gladwin

glen and Ann Arbor, and their daughter Spring

the turkey always gobles

they tried to raise goats in goetzville, but something was a little off...

someone haslett him off the hook,

The Hillman of highland

Horton heard something but it wasn't a who

He gave a howell

Ida wanted to be there

After he bought it I told him ionia

Leonidas something with 300 was the governor of sparta

People taking their Bentley , Cadillac and pontiac at lincoln park

The lyons always say, there's no I in team, or our name.

Everone thinks there were aliens in croswell

They always have a bike race in de tour village

The pilot said Newaywego

He said Okemos, for mos was his nickname

They were late so they said we are onaway

In painesdale the motto is no paine no gain.

He was posen as a something

He said Prescott, scott said Pullman

a ray of hope  is always in blissfield brighton,

he was reading  in reed city

this is where remus and romulus

he went into an interview in riverview,

wetmore is about as wet as Dryden

the lumberjacks always wanted to log in silverwood, but never rockwood

the banking in la salle and national city were very good

he said that it was morley wrong

people from Mohawk would feel awkward in mullet lake

alonson is a good boy

in battle creek the best weapon is a bad axe and cannonsburg, but they can never get through to castle park

the chimes in Belleville are wonderful,

you would never want to take a bath in the black river

around Christmas, carrollton  is alive

there are a lot of lawyers in Caseville , which of course is next to lawton

cedar is always floating down the bark river

the eagle put his clawson the perch

the bowling in dowling in grand, only if you can get through the dorr

Clare lived in Grosse point, and everyone said eau Claire you need to take a bath,  you are even fowler  before!

-he said eureka, I've found it!

-The fair people wanted a fairgrove  and also a Fairview, so they moved to Fair Haven

-he said, "I'd like a hamburg, er, you have that right?"

-the robber said hanover the money

-Laurium should be on the periodic table

-Luna pier is on the banks of  lake orion, just outside of  north star, but you can only see it with the hubbell

-Michigan is a very saintly state. We have Saint Charles Saint Clair Saint Clair Shores Saint Helen Saint Ignace Saint Johns Saint Joseph Saint Louis. Cross village was only a few miles away

-some people have an Allegan, but others

-the garden with the azelia is great in bloomfield hills

what are those red hills? We call them auburn hills.

This woman kept saying she would be comins round the iron mountains

The mission is covert

when there are Dearborn,  they have to go to Deerfield to be with the others.

People in gould city  would always mine but never find anything. Just a fools hope.

we were gowen  miles in niles

people were rollin their wheeler, but they hit  a rock

the Rhodes led to many places

after eating a sturgis caught from eaton rapids,  he exclaimed, mesick

You know what they say, alls well that elwell.


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