Let us be lovers
we'll marry
our fortunes together
I've got some
real estate
here in my bag..
So we bought
a pack of cigarettes
and Mrs. Wagner's pies
and walked off
to look for America
"Kathy" I said
as we boarded
a Greyhound
in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems
like a dream
to me now"
It took me four days
to hitch hike from
Saginaw I've come
to look for America
Laughing on the bus
playing games
with the faces
She said the man
in the gabardine suit
was a spy
I said "Be careful
his bow tie is really
a camera"
"Toss me a cigarette
I think there's one
in my raincoat"
We smoked
the last one
an hour ago
so I looked at
the scenery
She read her magazine
and the moon rose
over an open field
"Kathy I'm lost" I said
though I knew
she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching
and I don't know why
Counting the cars
on the New Jersey
Turnpike they've all come
to look for America
All come
to look for America
All come
to look for America