Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Twelve More Miles to Tucumcari

Just fifty more minutes till my ride arrives.
I can cool my heels on my new living room couch.
My rides are all about who drives.
Always ready for high fives:
you say, Put ‘er there, and I say, Ouch!
Still fifty more minutes till my ride arrives.
This definitely won't be the last time I see my ride alive,
though they like to drive with a foot-pedal clutch,
and that definitely decides who drives,
because I‘m actually more of an automatic guy,
so I ride in the passenger seat in a poetic slouch.
But there are still forty-five more minutes till my ride arrives,
and then it’ll be all about what chimes and what jives
and who has an empathetic touch
so it really doesn’t matter who drives,
except that it shouldn’t be this white-
haired queer, fluttering their eyebrows.
Just thirty-seven minutes now till my ride arrives.
I’ll ride shotgun, you drive.