Californy

Jack was sitting poker faced 
With bullets backed by bitches.
Neal hunched at the wheel 
Puttin everyone in stitches.
He was braggin 'bout 
This nurse he'd screwed, 
While drivin through Nebraska. 
Said that when she came,
She honked the horn, 
And Neal just barely
Missed a truck 
And then he asked her 
If she'd like to cum like that
All the way to CalifornY?
See a redhead in a uniform 
Will always make you horny.
With her hair net and her white
Shoes and a name tag and a hat,
She drove like Andy Granatelli
And knew how to fix a flat!
And Jack was at the bottom 
Of his second 2020.
Neal was yellin out the window
Tryin to buy some beannies
From a Lincoln, full of Mexicans
Whose left rear tire blew 
And the son's of bitches
Prit near ran us off the road!
Well the nurse had 
Spilled the Manischewitz
All up and down her dress, 
Then she lit the map on fire 
And Neal just had to guess. 
Should we try to find 
A bootleg route 
Or a fillin station open? 
The nurse was dumping 
Out her purse looking for a kiss.
Jack was out of cigarettes,
When we crossed the yellow line.
The gas pumps looked 
Like tombstones from then on. 
It felt lonelier than a parking lot 
When the last car pulls away. 
And the moonlight dressed 
The double breasted foot hills 
In the mirror, weaving out
A negligee and black brassiere. 
The mercury was running hot
And we were almost out a gas,
Just then Florence Nightingale 
Dropped her draws and stuck
Her fat ass out the window
To a Wilson Picket tune
And she shouted "get a load of this! " 
And give the finger to the moon.
Counting one eyed jacks
And whistlin Dixie in the car, 
Neal was doin least a hundred
When we saw a shootin star.
Florence wished that Neal 
Would hold her 'stead of chewin his cigar.
Jack was noddin out and dreamin 
That he was in a bar,
With Charlie Parker on the bandstand 
And not a worry in the world, 
And a glass of beer in one hand 
And his arm around a girl. 
And Neal was singin to the nurse
Underneath a Harken moon
And somehow you could tell 
We'd be in CalifornY pretty soon.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 4/22/2019 9:52:00 PM
Way cool and visual as all get up. This feels like an outpouring, like the pen stayed on the page for at least 10 minutes straight. Thanks for sharing...………..peace!
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Date: 8/12/2018 2:49:00 AM
Awesome storytelling. I got a little bit of John Steinbeck and a bit more of Michelle Cliff from this, but also a lot of something uniquely yours. Smashing, fave.
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Date: 10/2/2017 12:39:00 PM
wow, what an amazing tale! you could def put this to music. good writing!
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Date: 2/1/2018 7:12:00 AM
Thank you for your read and encouraging comment.
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Date: 2/1/2018 7:12:00 AM
Thank you for your read and encouraging comment.
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