Notes from the steering wheel

In the past hundred years,
as many highways have been laid across the globe
as we have veins beneath the skin

communities scatter,
families spread,
a spectrum of Mobile stations between points A and B

a caligraphy like stretch marks
marking the growth

food picked from the vine in California
ripening in the dank shade of an 18-wheeler
on it's way to the mid-Atlantic seaboard~

a schmorgasboard
of truck stops
green house gasses
and transistor radios
along the way

all a part of the invisible toxic blossom.