Flashing by at 75 miles an hour
Come to our Cowboy Church
Our rock and roll, guitar church
Our biker church
Our church
our church
God damn
Visit the visitor center
The Indian Mounds
Invest this year in a new time-share
Urgent care, next exit
Free in-room coffee, High Speed Wi-Fi
We’ll get you out of your time-share
Spend the night, tonight, in San Augustine
Vasectomy
The billboards on the highway teach me
Abortion stops a beating heart
And that God listens to Christian radio
That winners play the PowerBall Lottery
That lasers can reverse my vasectomy
That the café, just 10 miles up I-75
Has totally bare waitresses, raw steaks
and clean showers
The billboards in Louisiana argue over
Whose caged tiger lived the longest
Pecan pralines and cracklin’s up ahead
Shipyards and refineries are hiring
Mesothelioma lawyers want to hear from you
8 nonstops a day from Dairy Queen to the West Coast
Click it or ticket
You pick it, you pull it
DWI, just don’t do it
Drivers eat free at Exit 173
(And more pralines)
Fried chicken and highway diesel
Vote, vote, vote for this guy
Look how clean his family is
And the stripes on that damned flag
We support our troops and first responders
Do not pick up hitchhikers, prison area
Join us Sunday at our Progressive Church
PW Covington writes in the beat tradition of the North American highway.
His latest book, a collection of short fiction, titled North Beach and Other Stories was recently named a 2019 Finalist in LGBTQ Fiction. Follow him @BeatPW
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Good old fashioned billboards are pure poetry.
ReplyDeleteGreat poem! Have you ever read Cash's Mind of the South? It was great and I should finish it.
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