450 Mile Bus Trip

The passage a bridge
from one to an-
other
                              & in that transfer the
broken syntax
                                                & a final exit in
Odessa fucking Texas

as it was given him

A tough-ass place
for a tough-ass one-
eyed son-of-a-bitch
poet
                                                or else that grace to
be relinquished & why
not lift a shot to-
night
                              throw down a few
against the darkness

for love