“Pack up the essentials”
Water
Fire
Caffeine
Tobacco tar
We smooth over a million miles in our car…
Spitting like cobras
Spinning smoke like dragons
Suns on fire
Dry smoldering sky
Cannot put it out
Till midnight liquid
Drowns it finally out
Blue ocean air
Cannot cool its anger
A thousand strands of gold
Grow ever old
Within mean hatred heat
This land sliced in half
By a million mile street
Clouds still collecting
Spilling silver lightening
Drops of rain
Slap windshield
Like bug-storm
Villain’s drive by
Like so many circus clowns
Clutching cleavers
Some strangers
Only mirrored glasses
Hiding hollow eyes
Driving from their pasts
Chains around their throats
Like goats
Fat tyrant queens
Slaves in grip
Promenading these highways
Casting curses
Like wicked witches
We glare insidious
With viscous reptile vision
Sending them a howling
Like banished banshees
Whipping their goat men as they go…
Stop in a ghost town
Where all who dwell – frown
“Friend – this town has brought you down”