bakersfield sound

tumbleweeds
where giants fear to tread
hold the key to alien abduction

fish entrails and chicken bones
flag the santa ana winds
a slurpee machine in bakersfield
the second coming
up
at first light
after a night of switchbacks

you got a hook up with that, mary jane
i refuse to answer that
that means you do
wrap yourself in that ayahuasca vine and yell fire

i just want to say out loud
you're the love of my life
i have no response to that

let x = x mutherfucker

and the butterflies danced with you
and the flutterbys
fashionista in floorlength leather
for this i paid sixty bucks

back on the one
linda's seabreeze
through my tears
conversion to hampton inn
right there on the road to damascus

the seeds of change drew back
the continental shelf
would have run
but the gypsy
told me hold to the sea

lashed to the mast

to rust unburnish'd
not to shine in use
as tho' to breathe were life

oh brother
where art thou