Traveling Companion

from Soil Science by Bandy Lou

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Left Charlie's alley, 9:17
with a box of good luck and some cold caffeine
127 northward thru St. John's
Got my cassettes of next week and a motor flannel on
If I make lakeshore before midnight,
well my friends they told me we could set the thing up right
Bells on bent poles on royal roads
serve to patch the summer cracks and smooth a heavy load
The crumbled kitchen when I got the call
I could make it up late, if I make it up at all
On past Alma, and 46
where a paranoid sherriff plays a side-road vision trick
And my traveling companion is shotgun side
slide me a bone on the right-side wrist
clackin' teeth all in my ear
and a deep red shade of fear that keeps me driving.
Crossed Roscommon, 11:15
with a bad case of soda pop and nicotine
blew a gasket, 2 into 4
this thing runs on a casket of dead dinosaurs
And my traveling companion is shotgun side
slide me a bone on the right-side wrist
clackin' teeth all in my ear
and a deep red shade of fear that keeps me driving.
Fell off the freeway so far from south
where inverted crickets meets the Indian river mouth
and lost my keys under the wooden dock
where there's melted teenagers in silouhettes and socks
I made the lakeshore before midnight
with a strong central feeling something else ain't going right
and tossed my gear onto a tilting porch
when a screaming fireball splits the sky stone iron torch
And my traveling companion is shotgun side
slide me a bone on the right-side wrist
clackin' teeth all in my ear
and a deep red shade of fear that keeps me driving.

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from Soil Science, released January 21, 2011

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