John Burroughs
CANNOT BELIEVE WILLIAM S BURROUGHS IS DEAD (written 1997)

Dream
Spectral old man
Gaunt
Beside me
In a late sixties
Large sedan
North on route fifty-seven
Through mid-Ohio
Seventy-five miles an hour
No other cars
Of the accelerator he says
"Hit it like you live
Hard"
When WHOA!
A sign directly in front of us says
"LEFT"
But there's no control
In the steering wheel and
Foot still on the gas
We launch
Straight into the sign
No matter what
Go forward
Awaken


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JOHN BURROUGHS
John Burroughs, aka Jesus Crisis, spent 11 years in prison for a time he did not commit, though he also got away with some he did. Founder of the burgeoning
Crisis Chronicles Press and Online Library, he co-hosts a monthly Lix and Kix poetry extravaganza in Cleveland, Ohio, and makes his home at
http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.crisischronicles.com.