Toodle-Oo Truckin' Comments

This is a wild delight from beginning to end. I love the dialect acquired by you with due diligence in the nuances of speech and then released with all of their fierce energy intact. This is a long poem but the energy never flags as you take on a journey - a kind of pilgrimage really - the music of each place sounding loud and clear. This is the true American spirit you celebrate with no politics or prejudices to spoil the sheer high spirits. I love your Visionary Poems with their heightened language and serious themes. But we need poems like this one and HAYRIDE, too, to uplift the tired heart and release the body's animal joy which runs parallel to the soul's angelic joy. uplift the