Highway Music in the Now | A collaboration between Puma Perl and Charlie Waters, dedicated to the memory of Steve Dalachinsky

Riding down streets

and highways

Looking for the road

out of here

Into somewhere

Into anywhere

Maybe a cheap

motel

Or an SRO

If they still

exist

Just for the night

or maybe for a month

Doesn’t seem to matter

The only place open

is Now

In the magic

of chaos

we continue

into hurricanes

and sunsets

Riding the Now express

Out of this moment

And back

The only one

we’ll ever have

Just the process,

said Stevie D,

Just the process

And the only space,

and the only place

open is Now.

© puma perl, charlie waters, 08/04/20

Puma Perl is a poet and writer, with five solo collections in print. The most recent is Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books, 2019.) She is the producer/creator of Puma’s Pandemonium, which brings spoken word together with rock and roll, and she performs regularly with her band Puma Perl and Friends. She’s received three New York Press Association awards in recognition of her journalism, and is the recipient of the 2016 Acker Award in the category of writing. Her most recent books can be found by clicking here.

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