Truck Drivers Love

Love poems from truck drivers

should be shoddy and ravel

with undertones of sex

and a four letter word.

Your lover graduated

from truck driving

many years ago

and the four-letter word

He uses most now is love.

Now I say, “Love you”

and “Love your mother” too.

It works,

doesn’t have much prose

or fanciness to it.

It works.

Roland James May 2001