Lunch Truck Revival

Lunch Truck Revival

You don’t want it,

you never did,

and you tried to go our own way,

but to blaze a trail was more work 

than you’d thought it’d be,

so you break back

and join society,

get a car lease

and sit in the the a/c;

a drive thru Starbucks line,

I see you in my mirror,

do you see me?

Time, when we’re in it

is so thick 

that we’ll sink:

a pressure from a job,

a wife who won’t sleep,

you take a drink, 

But some of us don’t conform,

we punch the clock

and do our time 

like a man,

but with the rest of life

we dream 

like what you do

is a nightmare,

because we see

what actually living 

could mean

and to work with the imagination

means to create

and that means Genesis 1:3

don’t you see?

They say,

“If you’re not with me,

then you’re against me.”

But,

you tell me if it 

was too quick for a generation to see

the internet

and cell phones

and free porn;

you don’t need a girlfriend

when you shop for one online,

let the corporation steal your time

and set fire to a thought

before it can manifest into a dream. 

The opposite of renaissance

would be a deterioration

of your station in life,

two generations before

our parents moved to the suburbs,

but now we’re back in the city;

a food truck lunch,

a flannel shirt,

and Wolverines. 

I don’t know if you’ve looked around lately

or if it’s just me,

but they’re seems to be 

an awakening,

a time in which 

a man can be seen

for what he sees,

what I want to do

is to help you see

what it will all look like 

in another century.