Music To Drive By
MUSIC TO DRIVE BY
Manitoba. Dashboard music. The west ahead.
At last the sun is gone - relax my eyes.
Kinda half-dozing, eyelids of lead.
Now slow love songs, with lots of sighs.
At last DJ plays a quick-time wake-up piece -
Jerry Lee with Chantilly Lace -
And I reach for the the volume increase :
Heavier foot on gas pedal picks up the pace.
Kristofferson now with Bobby McGee :
In the dusk I start to sing along, all smiles.
Window down - cold air wakes me,
The rig starts to consume the miles.
Two hundred to go and alone on the road.
Distant lights: some small town -
Feel the wind push as I ease the heavy load -
Maybe it’s Brandon, of only local renown.
Now Manitoba - pool-table flat - disappears,
And the prairie landscape has a slight rise:
Grab the stick and shift down the gears,
Saskatchewan surely ahead now lies.
To Indian Head - Arlo Guthrie helps me make it:
Listen to last verse of City of New Orleans:
Pull in to the Voyageur Truckstop; hiss; brake it.
Steak, eggs, hash browns, coffee: that’s what it means.
Copyright © Sidney Beck | Year Posted 2011
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