Stephen Bett

Drive, He Said

I'm on The Drive in a, you know,
no-pre-own-challenged CD/bookstore
this VW van parked outside
vintage     decidedly post-hip, styling
retro, psychedelic, block letters
stamped across windshield
                                     FUKNGRUVN

& stencilled on spare tire cover
over front grill

                        C     L
                 U                  E
             N                          A
           F                                 R
             R                            E
                 E                     N
                     E       Z   O

so we know it's all but psychically disarmed

The twenty-something clerk/proprietor/
                                     owner (operator?)
enthusing at me verbatim dialogue
Monkee Mike w/Zappa guesting on
some astrally imploded rerun,

I think, "guys today"
living in somebody else's past
Well "hell-o?"... get a life
star turn dude
no problem he says, I'll just
morph into yours