aggressive driving

[WIREMAN]

in the word
i lost myself
recognizing the
whole
big constant
nowhere that you
can run to
in your face
every moment
each and everyday
no matter how fast
you drive down the
the freeway hollering,
"GET THE HELL OUTTA MY WAY!!!!!"

[mnaz]

so true. you can drive into, but not out of it, and 'it' will always be there...

[jim turner]

You ain't gonna win, so wear ear plugs and mirror glasses like cops and keep going. Makes me think about the guy driving down the freeway, answers his cell phone (not supposed to do that) and his wife tells him to be careful--the news station just reported that some fool is driving the wrong way on your freeway. Not just one, he replies. There's thousands of them.

[stilltrucking]

as far as I can see
the road before me
a river of taillights
flowing from the Atlantic into The Pacific
never going to get in front of it
feeling like a corpuscle in the artery of America
sitting in that high seat, above it all
there is no other life
Trucks are different, different sound
More sonorous soothing
Vibrating through my being
like a mystic syllable

just jamming
and thinking of this bit by Lew Welch

I chew gum and go to my car dressed in a suit and a tie. I fight idiots who don't know how to drive on a highway where thousands of cars go too fast and all the signs, streetlights, and policemen are confused and wrong....
Then I come home. The same idiots that can't drive are now as furious as I am. We try to kill each other for 30 minutes. Then I am home. I

From

Genesis Angels:
The saga of Lew Welch and the beat generation

[WIREMAN]

a little beat dos-e-doe
these mornings i lay back on
the commuter bus
sleep for 45 mins
then the subway
don't miss i-95
nor 495 or i-270
used to
love them truck lights
on the lone highway
blinkin' to let u in
navaho and mayflower movers
rebar trucks i unload each day
willin"!!!!!