"Auto" (2009)

by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

My dashboard is furry with dust
flecked with little petrified lakes
of coffee-mud

Windshield is cracked

Can barely see the gauges
through the layers of sediment
lined with finger tracks
where I've half-heartedly
pushed the grime around

Because I'm a god-damned commuter

Living in a small town
where my education
and disposition
render me unemployable

A skeleton hangs
from the passanger side sun visor

Mardi-Gras beads bleached
from a vibrant green and gold
to a uniform cloudy silver
props from some black and chrome film
a sci-fi oldie
swing with each turn

The floors are buried
in empty pop cans
and greasy fast food bags

And the odometer
reads 80,000 miles
and counting

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[Originally published in 2009 at Clockwise Cat]
Poem by me!

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LATER!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

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