Finger points right.
Cows.
Finger points left.
Cows.
Finger points right.
Horses.

We’re moving along,
getting ahead,
making headway.
That’s good
because
I’ve got a big head
on the inside
at least
enough
to point a finger
at


all the trucks
going
somewhere
I wish I were
going somewhere
oh wait
I am
and I even know
where


Truck
Wal Mart
slogan:
save money
live better
our source
of words
to live by


Animal Radio:
“We don’t want our animals
to be stressed out”

Of course not.

But what about people?

Stress example:
tortoise locked out
missed a tortoise meal
reared up
pushed against the door
bent the frame

Gamera lives!


Sign:
Soft Shoulder
Turn on Lights
Turns me on too
even if only
in memory


Lookin’ fer signs:

They’s allus signs
jes’ look

In ‘n’ Out
Quality you can taste

In, yes
Out, please no


Sign:
Tasting
25 Minutes

That’s a long taste
If you can’t tell by then…

***
Climate change:

Evergreen

is not forever

***

trees all leaning
one way
away
from
the invisible wind

***

Random Road Signs

Towing

55

That’s a long haul

***

INN
Vacancy
Come on inn

***
Some people are
so full of themselves
they’re fed up

***
On the radio
they’re talking about
how to write
the voice in your head

Get Help!

***
barbed wire fence
who are they keeping out?
who in?

***
Sign:

Slow Down
When Flashing

So where do you
put your clothes?

***

Travel Center

As opposed to what?
Travel circumference?
Travel around?

***
Wheel chair picture

Sign for
The reading impaired?

***
Camping Right

Where’s
Camping Wrong?

***

Sign:
Barn

Yes, it is.

Sign:
UHaul

Yes, I do, every day

***

Rolling Hills

I don’t see them rolling

***

Sign:

One Way

No way!

***
Truck sign:

Alien Transportation

Space ship inside?


***

Why is it
when people talk
about Shakespeare
they use
a British accent?
Is it something in the heir?

***
Question posed
on the radio:
Does Shakespeare
have a future?
Well
if radio
eclipses reading
then maybe not

***
se habla español

many do

***

Sign:

FOR SALE
Then lower
Smaller
For Sale

must be desperate
to say it twice

***

Exit 40

I’m too old
To get off here

***
Move Over or Slow

That’s the choice?

***
Auction Road
Hooker Creek

What are they selling?

***
Hungry, Dad?

Well,
Now that you mention it…


Cottonwood

And wouldn’t?

***

5
North

But there are only
three of us

***
Wilcox Road

Don’t even think about it.

***
Popeyes

OK, I’ll try

***

Best Western

What’s the Worst?

***
A lot of horses
refreshing change
from all those cows

Now
horses and cows together
looks like
they herd each other

***
Truck sign:
Helping the World
Keep Promises
Is that how?

***
Cattleman’s Restaurant

Where do the women eat?

***
Twin View Road

Both of them?

***
Holiday Inn
Today’s not a holiday
so it must be out


Tourist Info

Where’s Outfo?

***
Dunsmuir 45

It’s older than that

***
Exalt Storage

Hosannah Storage!

***

Lakehead

Where’s Lakefoot?


Sign:
Road Closed

I’m looking for
the other closed signs:
Closed Mind
Closed Mouth
Closed Case


How can I forget
food
and the memory
of food
I need to refresh
my memory
feed it fresh

***
End
Road Work

There are a lot
of other things
I’d like to end
first


Dunsmuir
27
It’s getting younger

***
Soda Creek
I’ve got a straw

***

Sign just says
FOOD
I love that sign

***
Railroad Park Road

Good advice.

***
Dunsmuir 3
It’s almost born

***

Radio:
Talking about Pecker
testifying
in the rape trial
first hand evidence
he was there
radio promises to report
every twist and turn
they’ve already
exhausted
the jokes

***
Rolling Hills

I don’t see them rock ‘n’ roll

***

Sign:
Jack

I don’t know Jack

***

Exit 633

That’s a lot of getting off


Traffic fines

Does it really?

Something’s in the air.

It’s the radio.


Cotton
Historic District

Old cloth?


Amber lights
Ahead mean

Should I be afraid
of mean amber lights?


Boat
on a bed
on a truck
rockin’ the boat
to sleep
Mind if I join?


Rest Area
Closed
No rest
for the wicked
the traveler
or me


They have lakes in Oregon
A crater full

I want people
to like me
as much
as I do


I seem never tired
of the dead trees
in passing by
probably
because
I’m passing by


And now we’re
19 miles away
sometimes progress
is perceptible

3 car accidents today

what’s wrong with people?


NO ACCESS

Don’t get personal


Suddenly
55

Where has my youth gone?


arrow to the right
and arrow merging right
I’m going crazy
with arrows
in my head
but Arrowhead
is a lake
so far south
I’ll survive
up here


Railroad Park Road

Good advice


Sign: Pick Up

Women standing around
looking loose


Willows Airport

Trees fly?


John Deere

Dear John


Road 57 1 Mile

Better than the other way around


Limit 75

What if you’re 76?


call box

I did


I don’t know what’s over there

I have enough trouble with what’s over here


Cloud of dust
of unknown origin

then I see the tractor
pulling the dust


Right lane
Must exit

How true


Thru traffic
Merge left

Right again


End
Road Work

Please, not yet


one way
right turn only
dead end


St. John’s Hall

He’s got a whole hall?


Drug Free Zone

You don’t charge?


Sign on truck: Rubicon
high wheels
might make it across


Something
in the middle of nowhere
makes it not nowhere


$400 million down payment
Trying to sell
Signs of the trying times


EconoLodge
Wi Fi
If you’ve got it
flaunt it


Sign: Sure Stay

I’m not sure


I’m not looking for
the fork in the road
because that’s in Pasadena
tined into the ground
and we’ve already seen it
already forked


dd’s discount
that’s not the Dee Dee I know
she counts


Memorial Bridge
remembers every passover


Sign: Hercules Exit

Am I in Greece?


Sign: Appian Way

Apparently I’m in Italy


Radio says
When more is less
Less is more
They really seem to know