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The implements of war come home

The cicadas are out again. In the trees screaming like some out of control machine. All the trucks resting here, sighing diesel into the night. The waning moon dragging itself into the sticky Kentucky sky. I’m awake but tired. And hoping to make Atlanta before the sun.

Charge me your daily rate

All night, FedEx wide-bodies from Beijing and Tokyo Berlin and London stacked above Memphis and waiting to land. And all day too landing two by two. Never will we need so much freight. All the world’s wealth crushing Tennessee into Mississippi.

All cattle are killed the same

The first chiseled their messages into stone. The next carved their messages into wood. The afterthats printed their messages onto paper. And the forgottens blow their messages into the cloud.

And pin my medals to my chest

Probably you will be alive when I die. So bury me naked in the dirt. As soon as you can. Without chemicals. Without bibles. Away from the water. And facing the sky.

Hump Yard

There in Kansas City the Union Pacific breaks apart its trains. And puts them back together again. All night those steel trucks rubbing against these metal rails. Screaming like the dead crying for hell.

Carbon County

I wrote something. And then I deleted it. I wrote it again. And then I deleted it. Because who reads. And who cares.

More than we can bear

She puts on her new shoes. She checks her lipstick in the mirror. She meets a friend at the corner for a drink. And then Gunned down in the street. And covered with a flower patterned sheet. Her new pink shoes bright against the grey Paris cobblestone.

There is only retrograde

0400 on the Georgia line he hammers south on 75 hoping to get through Atlanta before the locals wake and turn it into the usual shit show. The morning heavy with smoke and suffering. On the other side she sits on the edge with the lights off drinking whiskey and wine and hoping sleep finds […]

Remind me to tell you a story

On the west edge of four in the morning and Nebraska. The Air Force is running one of their secret trucks along 80 again. Their tactical convoy stretching from the desert of Kimball to the foggy thunderstorms of Cheyenne. Every cloud raging. Every mountain silent. Upset at the rain for slowly washing it away.

So, how goes the war?

Tiny rabbits crouching in the wide shadow of a redwood. Hearts pounding, ears twitching. Knowing the shadows aren’t dark enough to hide them from the owl’s eyes. The full moon wanders close. I hate that I have to die and spend so much time trying to find you again. The full moon wandering away. Always. […]