In aging prizefighter heart
Thrown fight in your favor
We can't speak like this to each other
Science and progress
A desperate relationship math
Eight pounds of hard white
A black trenchcoat
Yankee heritage
Where specialized backstroke
On acres of pearl land
Pristine in wartime service
Out of retro heads
In barroom brawls
With aged transvestites
Over angry black liquors
And bitters
A spot on the open road
With eagle wings unclipped
And roadkill barely legal
Sideways down backroads
Above backalleys
To abandoned truckstops
Where egg salad breakdowns
Build futile mountains
In vending machine payouts