Pickers

in a brand new episode
of television’s latest show
about picking through visions
abandoned by the newly strapped

a pair of businessmen purchase
a half-restored Harley-Davidson
with a Wild One era frame
and a brand new engine

if you want to talk America
you can’t go wrong
waxing lyrical over an old softail
coupled to something sleek
and easy to tweak
that was left for the vultures to pick

the whole affair’s broadcast
for your amusement
to buffer your worry

onward then
with your own dreams
of a highway
laid out before you
all yours
after your own big score