Silver Wheels

High speed drift on a prairie road
 Hot tires sing like a string being bowed
 Sudden town rears up then explodes
 Fragments resolve into white line code
 Whirl on silver wheels
 Black earth energy receptor fields
 Undulate under a grey cloud shield
 We outrun a river colour brick red mud
 That cleaves apart hills soil rich as blood
 Highway squeeze in construction steam
 Stop caution hard hat yellow insect machines
 Silver steel towers stalk rolling land
 Toward distant stacks that shout "Feed on demand"
 100 miles later the sky has changed
 Urban anticipation -- we get 4 lanes
 Red orange furnace sphere notches down
 Throws up silhouette skyline in brown
 Sundogs flare on windshield glass
 Sudden swoop skyward iron horse overpass
 Pass a man walking like the man in the moon
 Walking like his head's full of irish fiddle tunes
 The skin around every city looks the same
 Miles of flat neon spelling well-known names
 USED TRUCKS DIRTY DONUTS YOU YOU'RE THE ONE
 Fat wheeled cars squeal into the sun
 Radio speakers gargle top 40 trash
 Muzak soundtrack to slow collapse
 Planet engines pulsate in sidereal time
 If you listen close you can hear the whine