Once with my friend Jess Moon
I drove a schoolbus
from Billings Montana
down through Mexico
Guatemala and Honduras
to Nicaragua
we never would have made it
without the radiator
Jess had us install
in San Diego
and two spare tires
both of which we needed
before the trip was over
that was back in '89
our destination
was our sister city Camoapa
and we came with books
medical supplies and seeds
but the real gift was the bus itself
although some Camoapan driver
drunk perhaps
there was a lot of drinking
managed soon enough
to drive it off a bridge
for me the lesson was it's not so easy
to be of help
you have to know a lot
more than I knew back then