LA Boy Takes a Road Trip Through the Midwest
The sun hangs low on the horizon
dappled yellow light through the trees
on an overgrown country road.
I unzip my fly
jack off in a rented minivan
in Illnois – I’m just passing through.
Toggle between his nudes on my phone
to release at last into the lid
of a Cracker Barrel to-go cup.
I send him pictures: forensic evidence
as a cicada beats at the window
and the robin, who perched for a moment behind me,
is suddenly gone.
The minivan says MAINTENANCE REQUIRED
in all caps, but I’ve got a full tank.
Right on to Rt. 37,
left onto 64,
and on to Missouri.
But first – I pause
to empty my sweet tea bladder
into a corn field.
Brian Sonia-Wallace is the author of I Sold These Poems, Now I Want Them Back (Yak Press, 2016) and a forthcoming book of essays from Harper Collins. He is the founder of RENT Poet, a company that brings poets on typewriters to events, a UCLA guest lecturer in Poetry and Performance, and the winner of unusual residencies ranging from Amtrak Trains to the Mall of America. More at: rentpoet.com.
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