Preparing to play their roles

in a parking lot
trying to start a motorcycle
wearing tight green shorts
a group of women
smiling at my legs
saying they were sexy
then with an old girlfriend
she is procrastinating
starting her motorcycle
I get mine going and drive off
frustrated and free

in the tour guide's house
communal living
dorm type situation
all of us waiting
to either go on stage
go to battle
get into college
preparations being made
shelves with copies of Penguin classics
faced out and feathered with bookmarks
the tour guide putting on make-up
a lot of women in the house
I am on the verge of uncovering
a government conspiracy
but can't find a shirt to wear
or glasses
the cia took everyone's glasses
find a pair of optical underwater goggles
hanging on a barbed wire fence
still looking for a shirt
now there is a wedding to attend
we are on the east coast
everyone has already left for the west coast
a meeting at yosemite
part of the cover-up
secret meetings at national parks
running around the house
with no shirt on
mostly women everywhere
everyone getting ready
to do something
preparing to play their roles
backstage at a high school drama