Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts will take you past the QuikTrip.

1. Intro: About Damn Time, Lizzo, Nice Life/Atlantic (2022)
2. Poem: Watching the last boat, Linda Gregg
3. Music: Bend & Break, Keane, UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) (2004)

Two dozen glazed and nobody to share them with. Just me and this exit ramp.

• Intro: Funky Times 1.0, Funky Times, K-Mountain Productions (2021)
• Poem: To Kiss a Forehead Is to Erase Worry, Marina Tsvetaeva
• Music: Rock Steady - Radio Edit, The Whispers, UNIDISC MUSIC INC. (1987)

Close your eyes. Now open them. That's the closest I get to ASMR while driving.

• Intro: Funky Times 1.0, Funky Times, K-Mountain Productions (2021)
• Poem: Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden
• Music: Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing, Incognito, UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) (1992)

Bitter gas station coffee pairs well with exhaust.

1. Intro: Funky Times 1.0, Funky Times, K-Mountain Productions (2021)
2. Poem: Road Warrior, Eileen Myles
3. Music: Don't Wait Too Long, Madeleine Peyroux, Rounder Records (2004)

No housework day. I also subscribe to no roadwork day.

• Intro: Funky Times 1.0, Funky Times, K-Mountain Productions (2021)
• Poem: Arrival, Michael Longley
• Music: Lady Day, Gil Scott-Heron

New week. Fresh start. Slightly stale Twinkie from the glove box.

• Intro: Funky Times 1.0, Funky Times, K-Mountain Productions (2021)
• Poem: In California, Margaret Levine
• Music: Yellow Daze, Jafunk;Triple H Horns;Adi Oasis, Luckie Star Records (2024)

I took the chains off the donuts. Tires. I mean tires.

• Intro: Happy Idiot, TV On The Radio, Harvest Records (2014)v
• Poem: Maple, Jane Hirshfield
• Music: Gypsy, Fleetwood Mac, Warner Records (1988)

If you don't fishtail at least once are you even commuting?

• Intro: Happy Idiot, TV On The Radio, Harvest Records (2014)
• Poem: To Be Alive, Gregory Orr
• Music: Smoke and Mirrors, PJ Morton, Morton Records / EMPIRE (2024)

Birds sing; I croon.

• Intro: Happy Idiot, TV On The Radio, Harvest Records (2014)
• Poem: Mrs. Darwin, Carol Ann Duffy
• Music: Tieduprightnow, Parcels, Because Music (2018)

I love when the traffic clears and everyone forgets how fast they were going.

• Intro: Discopolis, Discoholic, Discoholic (2024)
• Poem: April, Sandra Lim
• Music: Keep That Coffee Hot, Scatman Crothers, Universal Digital Enterprises (1956)