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?