7:30 AM gas station convenience store\napocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A service center for marginalized\nsouls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here I am, rock me like a…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wagner is not playing \/ Kool and the\nGang<\/p>\n\n\n\n Man walks out with a corndog for\nbreakfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n He drops it on the concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He picks it up. He eats the whole dog\nin one bite. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n A man skates up and he’s chained to his\nskateboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n He’s got chains coming out of his face\nand chest<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three tattooed women, 30, 50, 70, pump\ngas<\/p>\n\n\n\n An obese couple buys matching Monsters<\/p>\n\n\n\n A man in fatigues buys chew and a\nLunchable<\/p>\n\n\n\n No way Steinbeck or Carver could have\nwritten books about these people. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n No way Woody or Bruce could have\nwritten songs about these people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can’t even imagine Dylan working in a\nfallen corndog or a man chained \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n to a skateboard into a song. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n How would a painter paint this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is no streaming show about them<\/p>\n\n\n\n but their show streams live every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are something new in America, or\nperhaps not. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Have they always been among us?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n They need chroniclers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n but that work doesn’t pay enough for a\ncorndog a day. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n At lunch I visit a bookstore. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n A ten-stack of Brautigan paperbacks\nrests near the register. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s a haul. I do a double take, \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The volumes reek of smoke and wine. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Owner tells me a man \u201chard on his\nluck\u201d \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n just came into sell them. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The owner bought them for a song. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I missed the man by minutes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would have doubled what he received,<\/p>\n\n\n\n right there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would have demanded an oath he never\nsell them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except for cigarettes and wine<\/p>\n\n\n\n because Richard would have approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There those book sat. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I thought about buying the lot<\/p>\n\n\n\n and distributing them at the\nconvenience store during<\/p>\n\n\n\n the next morning’s apocalypse. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n But no one would give a shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A man can’t read while skateboarding<\/p>\n\n\n\n (although I have seen it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s not the way to get anywhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n with this subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is? \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 7:30 AM gas station convenience store apocalypse. A service center for marginalized souls. Here I am, rock me like a… Wagner is not playing \/ Kool and the Gang Man walks out with a corndog for breakfast He drops it on the concrete. He picks it up. He eats the whole dog in one bite. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}