Lightning Ahead
When I'm driving along the interstate
I like to look at clouds &
When I'm sitting still as well
What's your all-time favorite drug?
Is a terrific question for old friends or for people
You hope to get to know
Right now the clouds are bestowing their gift of rain
Other times their gift is shade &
Other times the curse of rain while I'm driving
However, in Orangeburg even the bananas are orange &
The egrets only visit when the sun goes down because
The law is out & they know what they did
We hydroplane across South Carolina, which
Is less amusing the second time just
Like those beans we ate last night
Lightning ahead!
O to live on Iron Mountain
Where your personal magnetism
Will hold us close
The rain drowns our conversation, which is inane,
But sincere
Which is even worse
Excuse me, ma'am, do you know
Your back window is down?
Oh shit! Thank you!
O to live high up
Up on Iron Mountain, now a marsh hill in the
Even Lower Country.
Elinor Nauen & Stephen Willis
5/29/25 ~ Steve's birthday