Listening to Car Wash Hair (Mercury Rev)

At the height of your distraction

take your hungry legs off and cover some ground

 

You have 20 minutes to reach 

the bridge 

a stream that has become yours by default

easter island pylons

a synagogue on the slingshot

 

Lazier hours in the park, escaping

the leviathan cutter, flesh exposed

 

But this is the height of frantic -

all morning spent

writing what you're not paid to write

thinking what you're not allowed

to think

 

This is the height of delirium

seeking her name in reference works

her home town in tourist guides

reminding yourself that this

will not end in a walk down the aisle

 

The final destination impossible

to determine, but 

guided by the mystical - some say imbecilic - 

properties of popular song

its contours, textures and fateful chiming

 

The path will illuminate as you walk

paved with golden instance

and mined with deadly intent


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