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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ITINERANT POET'S ROAD SONG, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Comin' out of lolo pass Last Line: All you got is the changes in time... The changes in time. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Journeys; Trips | |||
Comin' out of Lolo Pass the cat began to heave; the bitch barfed on my brand-new tapes while I tried not to breathe. Buy my beer at the pharmacist's my wine at the grocery store a trackin' booze is better than the bars and cowboy bores. Willie sing me t' the next motel Loretta rhyme me to sleep 'cause Bach gave out at Chicago I'm drivin' Paul Harvey's beat. Sixty-five below Livingston when black ice spun me out: the stars were caught in an eggbeater; my guts felt like sauerkraut. Carton of books just wedged in front the cat's pan behind my seat; if my clothes fall in I'm gonna have t' drink gin just to equalize the reek. There's a restaurant in Billings where everything's served flambe. The lights are low; the food is hot but they don't know Beaujolais. Willie sing me t' the next motel Loretta rhyme me to sleep 'cause Bach gave out at Chicago I'm drivin' Paul Harvey's beat. Old Wall Drug's behind me Little America's the next stunt a semi's trailin' my Honda's ass an' a snowplow's drivin' up front. One lane open on 1-25 the black pecker-birds at Midwest are noddin' for oil in the snow while I get fourteen cents at the best. Read my work in Helena an' read my poems in Crow; their words are stiffenin' like laundry on a line at fifty below. Willie sing me t' the next motel Loretta rhyme me to sleep 'cause Bach gave out at Chicago I'm drivin' Paul Harvey's beat. Had a job and man in New York but now I'm Denver bound with a carsickcat, a Hondahatchback an' Loretta-Paul-Willie's sound. Repeat anything you'd like to hear fill in the lines and rhymes 'cause drivin' alone so far from home all you got is the changes in time... the changes in time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING |
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