Rhys Langston Compelling Bars
Intro to admiration
9/10ths on the debit
Unleaded verse per gallon
The word as credit, settled, said it
For journey post “read it”
I-10 motions stuck to shift comprehension
(check)
Self-indented, concrete, and curbside
Seemed to stop at the signs
Signifying speed limit of the mind
Ticketed
Rolling without pause, line drive
Wishing that
Driver's side note focus would just
Elicit rep
But f..ck
No forward movements
Losing confidence enthused with
Loose scripts blown by airs
That regulate ownership, newness
Registration, license
Stoppage quotas
Monthly cycles
Car door exit clipping bike lane Haysoos
Annotating red line bibles
Left vehicle in idle
Stomach prod rifle
Produced by uniform seeking libel
Issuing a civil claim title
On a wordless roadside writer
(naw, naw, naw, naw, naw
Hold up)
(just some)
Wool pool over, eyes flash dash
Scramble reason
Uninhibited travel
So contradicts the held-up freeman
Who says
“seeing is believing
“writing is intellectual peeing,”
Officer notes attempt at public urination
As citation, treason
(about $73)
Adjust black collar
Strolls back to squad car gripping baton
For protest/holler
But he sees something else
Protagonist writer parked on the block
Inspiration searching in self
‘cause all these compelling bars
Held hostage in memory bank hold ups
Hold up
These compelling bars
Held hostage in memory bank hold ups
Hold up
