Poem from the book the {The Lion and the Sun} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

Drinking driving and arithmetic, an after school special

Getting the Audi Fox speeding up to one hundred ten , then doing the streets of San Francisco on the rural gravel roads of Newton, Iowa

Shooting over the tops of the rolling hills

Gliding fourteen feet in the air till you come slamming down and you fish tail in the gravel

Coning adults at the Hy Vee Grocery Store, to buy us some long necks of Buttwiper Beer, when there use to be a mall

Driving around with Al and friends smoking our cigars and drinking our beer

Picking up the girls and taking them night golfing

Going to the Capitol Theatre to throw milkduds and popcorn and spill pop on the floor (your feet would stick)

Getting slammed into windshield like a bug and flying eighty feet in the air till I skidded in the asphalt

The nurse used a rather rough brillo pad to scrub the wounds

Teasing rival cars on the strip and being chased

These guys open their van door to give us a beating

I shoot a flare gun into the vehicle and they dance like marionettes, and we escape

Watching girls in bikinis and then saying something smart ass to my girlfriend (who pushes me over a railing)

Making enough money to pump gas in my car

Working at Adventureland Amusement Park cleaning up barf from the roller coaster ride the Tornado for $2.75 an hour

The car mechanic pulls me aside and tells me to drive more responsibly

He says he is sick of working on this vehicle

The mechanic is a hippie wearing a Jack Daniels t-shirt.

Poem from the book {The Lion and the Sun} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas