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