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Greyhound

Cowboy boots and vintage wool psychedelia (poncho, jazz shades) and cool drip slow burn tea and electric notes of Bob Dylan, Maggie’s Farm and that dude, he has meth mouth so I guess he’s going to talk and talk and talk Mestizo soda pop and a Vietnam Vet. selling car insurance and damn, it’s just too bad that no one knows of his jungle or of the opaque-eyed landlocked Lord of the Fish and the fire-brained midnight mutterings of his old compadres, the soon to be deceased and now the bus moves Sporadic in gesture and old woman (oxygen masked dementia) and the intergalactic fliers of fancy and the acid head priest’s imbalance in fact v. fiction with his ass in seat and wheels as feet and the shivering ribs of this, our noble mode of ultimate conveyance through the assailing grays whites and silvers of the snow-water-nebulas and now the bus slides and slides and slides Through Spokane dark and the disintegration of passengers into sleep on the black glass highway through the breath of the night and this is motion and this feels right.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 2/20/2016 8:29:00 PM
Max, Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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Date: 2/19/2016 12:36:00 PM
Brought me back to my Greyhound travels and many night crossings on "black glass highways". Evoked transient nature of existence with some mature metaphor linking of memory, observation, emotion.
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Book: Shattered Sighs