Rest in Peace Scott Wannberg

A Road in Arizona, Early Sunday
By Scott Wannberg, from Twisted Cadillac: A Spoken Word Odyssey, by the Carma Bums


Malibu cowboy in a Cadillac convertible
the jazz slowly stretches out of the
radio and burns across the facial tissue of Sunday early
side of the road in Arizona sleep
down. I lay in the bed of Uncle Don's truck
with my air mattress under me and my bag on top
Uncle Don lived in his pup tent
Eb and S.A. managed discomfort for four
hours in the cowboy convertible
the jazz slowly stretches the imagination
Bobbo Mike and Doug shared the mezzanine
of S.A.'s 59 Cadillac, protection bear Lane and
Kerouac who will soon be meeting Ellyn in
Albuquerque and Uncle Don
as i tried to find the sleep in my body
said not once
but twice
Scott could you help me a minute here
on the side of the Arizona
somewhere between something and everyone
and i got up and did it and then i got back in the truck
and thought
what if it rained on me
i'm the only asshole sleeping out in the open and
you just gotta figure
we were on the right side of the tune
it never rained once during the whole damn boogaloo