A Toothbrush And A Dime Novel's All I Need To Travel Poem by jacob erincilberto

page fifty
and i am stone blind blissfully
settling into the trip
but broke from so many city stops
and spending vocabulary on girls and booze
and time to lose,

and i paid ten dollars for a dollar fifty book
and am stuck on
page fifty
with blurred vision from lack of revision

of my life
which should be reconstructed not deconstructed

if i can get to page two-fifty
i might have a chance to make amends
have the bends
or at least travel to the ends
of my un-novel life
laissez fare

or find a baby sitter
for this quitter
whose attention span never got on the NY bus
heading west because he couldn't read a word really
just stared at the cover like it was not a book jacket
but a yellow jacket
that was dead set on stinging me
in the eye.


erin-cilberto
5/10/o8