It seems that the inception of sentimental states is unchangeably similar
Dear clients, I shall seize the opportunity to canalize these feelings!
Especially to those sitting somewhere on bus station benches
Unexpectedly, waiting for trains or buses bound to nowhere
I would love to desperately inform you:
I reckon I have never visited Finland.
Actually, I probably never should visit Finland,
Since it is a place I love so much on paperbacks
I bought from Powell’s Books with my working class dimes
It turned out I am visiting 21st century American dream
Now that I am sitting in this greyhound bus station
Not because I am expecting a girlfriend’s heart to revisit
Not because I am picking up my grandmother’s leather suitcases
Not because I am bound to meet a Rockefeller businessman
Not because I am solitarily taking 8.30 train to Eugene
It is because I whimsically remembered Jack in his French Beret
It is because 50s style Cadillac car smoke gets into my myopic eyes
It is because my ears picked “Born to Be Wild” on the entrance to Portland Central Station
It is because I imagined again Jack’s mother weeping in front of Madonna icons
It is because I ventured into the epiphanies of the varieties of religious experience
It is In Portland where everybody leisurely rode their fanciful organic bikes,
In Portland where the deer leap and traipse through when you plant roses,
In Portland where blond girls walk in their vegan underwear late in the evening,
In Portland where Gays and Lesbians read their battered copies of “Gender Trouble”,
In Portland where Columbia and Willamette rivers erotically confluence,
In Portland where nouveau riche American couples have two types of tap waters,
I walked in distress when I saw old and young homeless pass out on hard floors
What would Kerouac say in this postmodern greyhound bus station?
Shall he say again “the floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, “
Shall he say again “they are always covered with butts and spit”
Shall he say again “they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.”
Shall he say again the trip “was an ordinary bus trip with crying babies and hot sun”
I shall not dwell in memoriam of anything celebrating funhouse mirror reflection of Portlandia
I shall not join Portlandia’s cage-free, organic and fresh satires on Mississippi Avenue
I shall let the Road unfold in a series of joyful epiphanies, in truck stops, Greyhound bus station
I shall stare through the early evening windows of jazz bars
This shall be my love letter to the great American landscapes I left in Iowa, Ohio and Indiana
I shall be too busy for failing love relationship scruples
I shall just allow my muscles a space to twitch, to live the ragged joy and go
I shall just sit in the greyhound bus station and think everything over.
