The Road That Would Lead Me to You   The street signs had been tampered with the maps had everything wrong I was living on castoffs and samples I was listening to all the wrong songs but I managed to hide all the hoopla inside of my head when it felt like a zoo till a whispering guide got me thumbing a ride on the road that would lead me to you the crazy road that would lead me to you   I pleaded with an astronaut to smuggle me into space and gurus propounded the fastest way to save the whole human race when they offered a lift and admired my thrift and admitted they hadn’t a clue I was scanning the faces in the strangest of places the road that would lead me to you the crazy-ass road that would lead me to you     © Michael Fleming Dummerston, Vermont June 2021