The 70s–UltraSuede

In finally

w/ salesmen, facing each other in the bulkhead seats
& one sd Looka here

what’s comin
handing a strip on across the table so I could mistake it

for real leather–

arguably it’s even possible to assign value to the present:

seated among the glib & easy white boys all
of us old enough to recall Jim Crow

crossing the Carolinas low over the trees

into Atlanta then back into the air

(The final one being one long stage, up exactly
to the minute