just let me shake my jeans
and rest awhile,

and loosen some of this dirt
from my denim-clad hunger
that's followed me all the way
from Jasper--
on my sojourn to find America;

and after i rest awhile,

then, i'll be shook-clean and
ready when i get an audience
with America herself.

it's then that i'll ask her all
the important questions.

03/21/2005