Thursday, June 24, 2010

In Those Cars

In those cars, those V-8 cars and those six-cylinder, six-pack, church-key cars ~ back seats fertile as Iowa itself ~ in those cars we loved each other and America (See the U.S.A. . .) and the road. In those cars with Dynaflow and wontcha blow your horn and Body by Fisher and hormone flow and bodies with fever reproducing like Ford's assembly line and Mortality just another cop snoozing behind a billboard in a black & white; in those cars we drag-raced through the uncertain light of a nation's adolescence and our own, in those cars we loved and came skidding into night; in those cars we loved.
...
drive-in movie
dusty projector pointed
into the past
~ Ralph Murre

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Real nice....

-Carolyn

madison. said...

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Ralph Murre said...

Thank you both. Madison, that's a little over the top, but appreciated all the same.