There is Art by the Side of the Road for Truck Drivers
I saw Van Gogh
by the side of the road
I saw Van Gogh
leant up by a lamppost
I saw his blue iris glow
stuffed in and left behind
somewhere in High Wycombe
England
With the ghost of the poet Paul Whitehead
looking down upon my life from his
death hill Hell-Fire Club
way over yonder
we stopped the truck and I got out
to snatch Dutch artist’s beautiful muse flowers and
pop in the back of truck saying:
‘Okay let’s go!’
Just you try and stop me, owner of Les Iris In A Vase
Just you try and stop me, Paul Whitehead Hell-Fire poet
And just you try and stop me, Van Gogh
Your head is still red and broken in fields
and your paintbrush strokes are all full of screaming eyes
and your ear is torn
So I know you can hear me
David Mac is one of the greatest forklift drivers to emerge from the UK. His words have appeared in many mags, journals, zines, sites and blogs. He hides out somewhere deep in the Bedfordshire Hell.