2 March 2002 | Vol. 2, No. 1
Gabrien Hits the Road
He was going to make a movie about it,
but the cost of film was too much.
He was going to write a book,
but the words fell
off the page somewhere
between Kansas and Mississippi.
He bought a tape recorder to retrieve
the words, but they did not survive
the transit from one side
of the microphone to the other.
They bloated, or shrunk.
They shook their fists at him
from inside their little cages.
He ran from them and hit the road.
The straightest he could find.
He traded his eyes for the ocean's smell,
and became the patron saint of the sleepless.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Mark Melton at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 2, No. 1, where "Gabrien Hits the Road" ran on March 2, 2002. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
