Dream Vacation

Dream Vacation

Living as we do

Riding wide eyed and wooly

The running boards of this

Threadbare science platform

We attempt to repair the tear

In our time continuum

With bubble gum and bailing wire

Hope it holds

The time we’re away

Never looking back to witness

What might be

Exploding in our rear view mirror

There comes a time

When you just can’t worry

Another moment

Without losing your mind

McDonough

You should know we thought of you

Every time we checked the maps

Bought at that Oklahoma

Reservation gas station

Last year on vacation

The attendant told us

We might buy the book and never

Own the contents

He was trying way too hard to

Say something witchy

I asked him
if he'd mind 
if I stole the line

This trip has taken on the fragility

Of crystal

Crisscrossed by power lines  

Looking for a Qwik Trip

We need more coffee

Hell has fire but lacks illumination

And

Up ahead stands a bindle stiff

Thumb in the wind

Ecstatic magician or

Coyote vagina

Not known - Unknowable

We stop to ask directions 

Offer her a ride beyond