route(50)

---

two.pills;
gun;
and(nothing.else);

scorched.route(50);
bronze.coin(for.a.fare);

ashamed_how.little(it.takes);

promising(far.off)
places(no.license);

wet.asphalt(queen.size);
sky(sick.honey);
you.kneel(into.weeds);
fingers.knotting(your.hair);

mark(my.benevolence);
lung.rot(ghost.towns);

focus.locked;
scar.tissue;
sun-peeled;

wax.sealed(skin);
sweltering.command;
rear-view.mirror(counterfeit);
rehearsed(alertness);

steering.wheel(too.hot)
to.hold(at.3p.m.);

blue.acid(down.my.throat);
post.red(prescription);
wrapper(twisted.twice);
consensual(hallucination);

split.curb(mucus);
feet.slapping(pavement);
pill.warm—slippery;
you.don’t.ask(for.water);

gravel(molar.to.molar);
don’t.spell(m(e).wrong);

dust.cracked.lips(held.hostage);
chest.branded(confessions);
leverage(to.drive);
straight.or.insane;

taillights.dim;
rust.holds(too.tight);
i.study(tar.on.twos);
rubber-infused.thumbprints;

blue.bows(strung.my.bluntness);
burn.offensive;
callouses.mapped;
flares(on.windshield);

spine.iron-straight(with.please);
wound.weeping—savoured;
obscene(shelling);

nothing.tastes
but.you;

three.seconds(away);
burn.us(twice);
going.down;

---

---

[image.credit: Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune (1968)]