Speed Reading In A Limousine

RWP#93

This week the poem was to take the form of a "whopper". So here is truly a whopper. Book titles and poems I red are in red.

This is a draft.









Speed Reading In A Limousine





We were bubbly drunk last weekend
when the limousine arrived
to take us to San Francisco
we told the chauffeur
as we loaded the boxes of books

case of wine

bread and cheese

in the back of the limo

twenty five hours of reading

as we headed down the gravel rod

with wine glass in hand

she started reading Alice Munro

The Love Of A Good Woman

for this road trip

I had Kerouac's On The Road

to get started

from our small town of Golden to San Francisco

The Town and The City by Kerouac

was next

speed reading to North Beach

with The Subterraneans and

Doctor Sax with

Visions Of Cody

Visions Of Gerard

Tristessa

Maggie Cassidy and the

Dharma Bums with the

Desolation Angels singing to

The Good Blonde And Others

Atop An Underwood as

Orpheus Emerged crying

The Mexico City Blues

San Francisco Blues while eating

Pomes All Sizes when

Orpheus Emerged the

Lonesome Traveller reading

Scattered Poems along with

The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity truly a

Book Of Dreams

Book Of Blues or trying to memorize

Vanity Of Duluoz while remembering

Satori In Paris then forgetting the

Pic of

Old Angel Midnight

Trip Trap

Heaven And Other Poems

as I poured more wine for

the love of my good woman

she reached to

Pull My Daisy from my lapel

to use as a bookmark in

The Handmaids Tale

finishing Kerouac's books

I began reading Grishman's

A Time To Kill which I threw out the window

then quickly turned to Hemmingway's

Men Without Women and

Truce Withouut Light

then a change of pace

Erle Stanley Gardner's

The Case Of Long Legged Models

as we entered Northern California

then some beat poetry on this

Sunday Evening where the

Junk Angel sings the

Blues For Sister Sally a

Benediction for

The West Coast Sounds and the

Abomunist Manifesto

Sex And Desire and

Mexican Loneliness while watching the

Migration Of Birds before the

Sunflower Sutra needs to

Howl and pray for

The Rain

For Love before writing his

Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note after learning

How To Medidtate and sing a Sunday

Hymn

as our limousine reaches North Beach

and turns on Columbus Avenue

stopping at City Lights

books all red

wine all gone

passing the Zapatista mural

on Kerouac Alley

we went to the front door

posters of anarchism mucktracking and

class warfare

lead us upstairs to Ferlenghetti

sleeping on his sofa chair

baseball on TV

popcorn and beer

dreaming of Ezra Pound

we slouch beside him

exhausted

from a weekend of speed reading

in a limousine.