truck nuts and vanity plates plotting a comeback through midwestern states laughing with friends over beers in the sun start to feel grounded, want to hug everyone hike all day alone; give in to mosquitoes suckling your fingers like frozen taquitos walk out on the lake but you slip up on the rocks deep cuts on your heel—blood seeps through your socks pull over to the shoulder when a bird hits the dash cry for a little while—then rid the car of trash truck nuts and vanity plates signs for no vacancy flicker into space pull in to the plaza to rest up your eyes think up all the ways that everything must die sudden or slow—possibilities endless surrender your fears until you’re defenseless the stench of rock bottom in rawlings, wyoming an arbys parking lot lost under the gloaming food poisoning i know is fleeting at best but indiana almost killed me at that pizza hut express truck nuts and vanity plates roads don’t give answers; your tires will deflate when you least expect them to in the dead of the night it rains all the time now, can’t stop staring at the light pitch black in missoula, should’ve woke up at dawn see the sun, climb the mountains sleepless & withdrawn you can’t be one with nature—it’s all just a blur a photo for tourists, women covered in fur animals set free too scared to leave their cages i've been burning through candles counting empty pages truck nuts and vanity plates long lonesome highway—i can't stay awake count down the hours til i run out of gas sing to the ether; let the spirits unmask redemption is petty; it’s never enough adventure is reckless; i bought fingerless gloves at an old gas station in the middle of nowhere where the fuck i am going? well now nobody knows where i wouldn’t put it past me to stay east through the winter or get back in my car, drive til my knuckles break and splinter