Got on the Road Again
Janet Kuypers
01/19/10
I had slept in my car
waiting to see you
after scrubbing my clothes
with a small bar of soap in a sink
in some no-name hotel
I drove across the country
my clothes held down
by closed windows at the seams
as American roads dried my clothes
And it made me ready for you
you greeted me with cosmopolitans
and casinos that harmonized
their winning and losing chimes
and it was harmonizing
when I won with you
but I had to pack up again
this is what I do, you know
so I gathered my clothes
saved them for the suitcase
and got on the road again
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