Drifting Transient at times blissful nature filled open photographic book feeling your eyes are movie cameras implanted inside a crows voyage- across flawlessly shaped just finished still soaked paintings hand gliding through face packed billows & mountains up through Colorado winding peaks orange ghostly new Mexico’s caves Upon hills first authentic cold of Chicago’s windy city bundled up at sunset filling you rigs tank after a warm breakfast of ramen & coffee wondering where days will take you how many faces you will stare at again & never see through unusual toll infrastructure’s in hectic city traffic or perfect flowing multi colored rainbows reflecting over bridges that seem to be built by god himself out of no where maybe just the quick glimpse upon smiles of lost hitchhiker’s wanting to just go anywhere along tall skyscrapers next to busily pumping smoky factories sounds of a heavy rain pitter patting down in the fog at times a perfect song playing just for your ears real chill & snow fall in odd little towns of Wisconsin while listening to them accents on cb that sound like a Michigander meets a Canadian from Massachusetts just as some kid in back seat with that youth filled non corrupt smile lifts his arm up & down for you to tug your horn late night rides in not yet ventured misty Tennessee mountains ears popping lighting another cigarette, thinking about tonight’ s meal waiting for another long day/night to end the excitement while falling asleep to purring trucks idling wondering what city & state you will end up in next non stop rain for days in Carolina’s-lightning busting down inches from rig while scared 4 wheelers pull over with worried 4 way flashers on as I zoom by them all, knowing that death shouldn’t be feared Georgia’s green fields with Atlanta’s busy body rush hour or summer emerald California mountains that go on & on for miles in another perfectly 80 degree sunset with Los Angeles lights at night kansas cafes in mini populations with fat good spirited waitress’s sometimes beautiful females working behind cash registers while your buying beef jerky at another truck stop in Kentucky you may never see again her face or her bright blue eyes St. Louis loops/ arches/ short cuts down through Alabama back roads catching glimpses of poor people barbecuing as night falls out Arkansas way- run down houses with junkyard front lawns west Virginia’s forests climbing altitudes & Pennsylvania’s high reaching plush jade hills that climb & climb to skies leading off non freeways more mini towns with style & big bad bikers with babes clutching to their backs grinning into distances with their love utah’s perfect snobby blonde Mormon beauties driving around in rich little sports mobiles- snow tipped mountains even sad black faces along Jackson Mississippi’s crack infested trucks stops they too have dreams, hopes, goals, searching for something, they too were once just kids with un corrupted souls even jersey spouts out its own culture & people just trying to survive the cute Mexican girls roaming in El Paso & Laredo Houston’s smog & Dallas’s Iranian ran bullet proof glass fuel stops Brownsville border towns serving you real tacos, genuine hot spicy enchiladas with chips & salsa with a smile & an extra strong Margarita nevada’s welcoming bunny ranches * bright city lights in Vegas nights even Iowa’s long straight roads of nothing but cornfields missouri’s backward miniature towns with local Martini bars that sneak up every other corner unexpectedly- something new to ponder liquor signs south Dakota, north Dakota, Wyoming, Montana like different planets amish atmospheres hidden in Ohio’s licking rivers passing through townships planted along isolated farms burning fresh smelling wood arizona’s always heated sun ripping down through ones window oregon’s green wilderness up steep hills curling around ones soul michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio’s annoying big truck 55 speed limit some day’s doesn’t even get your frustration boiling louisiana Cajun babbling French accents showing hospitality down near Baton Rouge feeding you free drinks all night chomping on deep fried alligator meatballs central, eastern, pacific, mountain. washington hail chilled winters at terminals in Sumner nebraska Badlands eroded sandstone castles shortcuts to avoid tolls through tips of mountainous Maryland’s michigans upper U.P. eating freshly caught fish near massive sand dunes after non stop laughter with at times no substances needed but the road in front of you. maybe I’ll conquer Australia next.