Tires

Send me down that road
Past the cross between one and the other
Where the cell service ensures I will never linger
And the sky is wide and bright
Not with the specks of useless stars
But the whole of the city.

Chill me to the bone with the endless memories
Friend after friend, lover after faceless lover
The deepest moments held in this city
Shushed like a secret among the trees
And the high-speed concrete's tendency
To take you wherever you heart desires.

Remind me of the times of innocence
That once derived from the lakes and ponds
But instead leaked themselves out
In the gas stations and coffeeshops
That dare to house the intellecut
Of the few of us left among the fires.

Lay my machine out among the speed
And I will give new meaning to eighty
As I see between the concrete and grass
That God watches this night, and others
While the sun goes down on another day
And my life drowns into the city.