http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/05/26/drivers_study/index.html

The fact that we came in second to Rhode Island is the only semi-surprise. And New Jersey taking third is no surprise at all.

There’s a reason they call us Massholes.

if I remember anything clearly
about us it’s this:
we went stoned to a carnival once
we made love on a grass bed
and the neon behind your shoulders
made me think I was loving the moon

if I could say this
to your face now
I believe you would be
astonished at the comparison
for back then
you did not like poetics
and were as practical
as an assassination

I’m tired
after all these years of wishing for carnivals
after all the meat and dirt of boundary and stink
I say this:
I don’t want to keep dreaming of how
I once made love to the moon
I want to wake up and smell the midway
the fried dough and the sweat of teenagers

I want to slap the gun
from your hand
and run

It was a good night.

I like those.

I want more of them.

I want more.