It is only fitting before embarking on an 8 to 12 hour drive to San Diego to quote a little "Screenwriter's Blues" and "Diamonds on My Windshield" ...
Exits to freeways
twisted like knots
on the fingers.
Jewels cleaving
skin between breasts...
It is 5 a.m.
and you are
listening to Los Angeles
The 8s go east
and The 5s go north
and the merging nexus
back and forth.
You see your sign,
cross the line,
signaling with a blink.
And the radio's gone off the air
gives you time to think...
And one more block; the engine talks,
whispers 'home at last'
It whispers 'home at last'...
And there are diamonds on my windshield,
these tears from heaven...
Late nights and freeway flying
Always makes me sing
It always makes me sing
BART sketches Aug. 18-21, a short week with packed cars:
Exits to freeways
twisted like knots
on the fingers.
Jewels cleaving
skin between breasts...
It is 5 a.m.
and you are
listening to Los Angeles
--Soul Coughing
The 8s go east
and The 5s go north
and the merging nexus
back and forth.
You see your sign,
cross the line,
signaling with a blink.
And the radio's gone off the air
gives you time to think...
And one more block; the engine talks,
whispers 'home at last'
It whispers 'home at last'...
And there are diamonds on my windshield,
these tears from heaven...
Late nights and freeway flying
Always makes me sing
It always makes me sing
--Tom Waits
...
BART sketches Aug. 18-21, a short week with packed cars:
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