Next Gas 50 mi

I'd give anything

to be twenty-five

in nineteen seventy-three

unshaved

in dirty jeans

making my way across

Kansas or

the Joshua Tree

in a beat up

Westfalia

with a pack of cigarettes

sliding back and forth

across the dashboard

and a copy of

Ask the Dust in the

passenger seat

with the cover missing

a burgundy guitar with

the high E snapped

in the back

and no idea of

where I'm going

or when I'll stop

Chromatophores

I can assure you
That there are not
Nearly enough
Explanations
Labels or
Forms of classification
That could possibly
Subdue
My knee-jerk
Tendency
To gasp at
The amazing
Profound and
Startling effects
Of cuttlefish
Changing color