BUS RIDE

At California's entrance
here we depart
Omaha all aboard
with John Denver
even Lord Baltimore's here
get up kid,
take off your Gogol
overcoat and blue beret
Big Apple, next stop
your urban read
is ready for first announcing
in his buzz
bz, you are on call
for this stand up appearance
our sentence is well eaten
as a word scattered salad
no ride is as tentative
as shadowy figures
as a poetry
in the underground
translated to film nostalgia
the quicker to get there
to recompose
in a song of writing
my insecurities not shown
at the microphone
with a refugee script
about war and peace
a poet wanders in a tumult
of compelling crowds
my audience applauds
in vagrant curiosity.