| chug... chug... oh shit...
chug... oh fuck... chug chug.... the last remaining rays
of light disappear over the horizon, leaving the landscape bathed in darkness.....
chug............ chug................ i downshift...
i upshift... it is hopeless. i try to coax a few more yards out of
my dying thoroughbred..... chug........ a few more
feet..... i come to rest in the saddle of two rises in the desert.
half on and half off the highway. dead. Shit, i say, Shit Shit
Shit Shit Shit.... i turn the key again, hoping... nothing...
it is dark. the wind starts to kick up.
i dismount my now impotent steed. i think of when i saw “An American
Werewolf in London” as a child, thinking that it was from the guys who
do the Monty Python stuff. Wrong. i can imagine the wolves
circling me now.... stranded on the moors.... this is not funny.
hazards flashing... i open the hood
of the jeep... yeah, that looks more like car trouble... i
walk back and forth nervously. all that pass are 18-Wheelers, RV's
and recycled K-cars... would it be better to be in front of the car
or behind it when some careless fuck drifts aimlessly to the right and
smacks me right in the kisser... i pace back and forth and finally
stand on the rear bumper so’s i can jump, action hero style, over onrushing
traffic... landing safely out of harms way should someone care to
take aim at me...
i wave wildly at all passing motorists...
the Big Rigs scream by, 3 trailers long, their jet wash shaking jeep and
passengers wildly, briefly... finally someone bites.
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