[choking moments in Ohio from "rhode island notebook 3.7.03"]

Gabriel Gudding



I-270 N 342 M 12:50 PM EST

sun out Wham! As I bounce over

the Olentangy State Scenic River

356 m fr. BL & Northwest of Columbus

2 Canada Geese traverse hwy

50 ft Above car. They do not honk.

It occurs to me I should have

honked at them

On rt, in bright sun N of Columbus,

375 m fr. BL, I see, in a muddy,

furry oval of hay, a press of

horned Kine in tumid Anoraks

feeding & lazing in sun booms:

I notice in shock they are bison.

Small hawk kites over median,

southward, yawing

STOP TO EAT, GAS, PEE 1:30 exit 151

10.1122 g 390 m = 38.57 mpg very low mpg

1:40 A fish sandwich

at McDonalds, I bite it in parking lot, choke

on the bite of hot cod puck. My sinuses ache

me.



1:52 pm EST back on road

and so Laura Bush picked up her

husband's hawky-pointy flared nostril

nose, smelled it, sniffed hard at it,

cried about it and put it safely

in her bosom brassiere. There in

turn it snuffled in little

fooms her bosom smells

76 east 2:44 pm 450.7 m fr BL.

Long steep downward slope near

Wadsworth OH, never noticed before

Traveling perpendicular to me on

an underpass beneath

the freeway, I spy a large clear white

Ford pickup w/ an immense American flag

on a 6 ft pole flickering Above its

hitch-bulb and I am once again shocked

at the ghastly, kitschy, tacky, tasteless

and disturbingly hick-like & white

non-urban, gun-bearing & ignorant



nationalism, which is. Nationalism is.

490 M 3:20 pm near Mt. Union

College, am very tired.

3:33 PM I sneeze explosively.

And, simultaneously, the loosened nose

of G W Bush sneezes between

Laura Bush's easy breasts w/ a puffing bang

rocketing the wedge of flesh

up the Valley of her cleavage

slopping her firmly under the chin

and slipping back w/ a snotty swash into her

silk and smelly valley.

Meander Reservoir 510 M 3:39 pm

80 e 3:41 pm 513 m I sneeze again

and again the loosened nose of G

W Bush burstles upward slapping

past the lip-gates of Laura Bush's mouth-lips

lodging under her Uvula. She glottal chokes

ejecting the nose, plosive phlegm-noise

follows the nose's arc outward: the nose splats in the

party's heels. A startled pause.

In the social air a bloom

of pallid phlegm unfurls. "For the

first time in my life I have

had to confess I am ashamed of my

country." -- Richard Olney, 1903, re:

Roosevelt's seizing of the Panama Canal

Pennsylvania Welcomes You 527 M

STOP TO PEE 3:53 -- 3:57



In Western Pennsylvania near

Clintonville, A bright but long-

shadowed March afternoon as the Alleghanies

begin, smattering of snows remain in

the woods and the large

meadows/small fields, but in the

median, a shallow-v in cross-section

the tan dead grass slicked-down by snow melt.

Am very achey.