Hangin’ Out at the Git and Go

The moon tonight is
the lone, pink sodium street
light of one more no

name, gas station / grain
elevator town with no
bar, no diner, no

movie theater
(since 1980-something),
nothing to do on

a Friday or a
Saturday night but get in-
to trouble in some

other town the next
county over, or hang out
here, at the Git and

Go, and watch a few
cars passing through; sometimes some
outta town types pull

in to gas up and
walk around a while, stretching
and joking, asking

themselves, each other
and, finally, one of us
where the hell are we?

Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is The Great American Pyramid Scheme (co-authored with W.E. Leathem, Tim Tarkelly and Mack Thorn, OAC Books, 2022). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Redand a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.