Ongoing Conversation #1

Jack and Dean, I am forever with you guys
Running my Prius off that endless highway
Searching for TRUTH with you bums
While minimizing Greenhouse emissions
Saving gas like it matters
To some fat Egghead in D.C.

Hipsters, how many miles per gallon did you get
When you Drove to San Francisco that Summer?
From my hometown of Denver
Where they put in those Condos, near the Railyard,
and the ghosts of your homeless buddies?

What did you find there at that city by the fog?
Was it cheap booze, flophouses filled with more poets like us, freethinkers?
Did it ever occur to you, in your vast hazy zone of hip
That the road would change?
From endless asphalt to forgotten exits?
That America would someday import most of its energy
From a lost place called the Middle East
And Jack don't drive there,
there is no apple pie and vanilla ice cream in the Sahara.

People drive today
Not for enlightenment
But to soccer practice.
So I ask them: If I go faster toward it
Will it matter more?
Whatever it is?

Beat Peak Oil Poem #1 (Tribute to my Beat Forefathers)

With the last gallon of gas in America,
I will drive to the Wal Mart Farthest from China
and fill my SUV with Fresh plastic flowers

With the Last Gallon of Gas in America
I will drive a stretch Hummer Limousine to a NASCAR race
and enjoy a wet t-shirt contest sponsored by a corporation
While listening to "I Can't Dive 55" by Sameul Hagar

Haiku # 19

(non-peak poetry)

In Bed at Nine
Light at end of Summer day
only dark under eyes

Haiku #18

(non-peak poetry)

Loving Fraud Makes Art
Isolate simple lying
Gain more marketshare

Non-Peak Poem Fragment #1

Al Gore, Greenhouse Gases
Without a Laxative, little passes

Rhythm method, Latin masses
Pass the plate and enjoy the lashes

Out of Gas, dirty Air
At least we don't watch Sonny and Cher

Pontius Pilate and Bob Barker
Color the Igloos with Magic Markers

Girls with Large Asses
Seldom worry about glasses

Haiku #17

New Starbucks Drive-Thru
Fair wages picking coffee beans
Smug drinker polluting

Haiku #16

(non-peak poetry)

What Modern Art is
Rich People Buying Fraud
Artists Loving Cash

Haiku # 15

Brittney's vagina
Peak Oil Hater's Distraction
Vacant stares at void

Haiku # 14

New House in suburbs
Garage is full of clutter
No place to park cars

Haiku #13

Business Week story
Mainstream Peak Oil Awareness
Do I make money?

Haiku #12

Cents off a gallon
With a Safeway shopper card
Engine runs waiting

Haiku # 11

Oil at Sixty Eight
Iran at Heaven's Gate
Drive don't hesitate

Haiku #10

(non-peak poetry)

Vomit Inducer
Organic berry flavor
tastes great down, up

Haiku #9

(non-peak poetry)

Delicious Mad-Cow
Uninspected meat patties
Have a happy Fourth!

Haiku #8

A Cyclone Gonu
What real damage did it do?
Nothing to oil, true?

Haiku # 7

Three dollars for gas
This is insane, really now
How much more to drive?

Haiku #6

Tens cents more per gallon
In twenty-four hours, what gives?
And no hurricane!

Haiku #5

(non-peak poetry)

Caffeine-Free Cola
With Sodium Benzoate
No buzz but Cancer

Haiku # 4

Fuel prices go higher
Uncle Sam says no inflation
I am broke faster

Haiku # 3

Gas is expensive
No vacations for the poor
Less traffic for me

Haiku #2

Ethenol from corn
Less food for Africa
We drive but they die

Haiku #1

My car is empty
Filler up with unleaded
Eighty dollars please