Route 35 (Passenger Seat)

Route 35 is crowded ugly

With heat

Tire stores

Used car dealerships

Liquor outlets

Vacancies

Pool and marine supply

Sleazy hotels and motor lodges

Hard luck

Strip clubs

Psychic readers

Legion halls

Bait and tackle

Abandoned buildings

Body shops and collision repair

Shady places of worship

Trailer parks

Lost dreams

Dirty dilapidated houses

Pressed up against 

This dirty highway

It seems that every car that passes by

The occupants are chain smokers

And drinking Big Gulps

It smells of grease

In 90+ degree heat

And at certain overpasses

Low tide

We pass billboards

Advertising 

Personal injury lawyers

Bankruptcy and divorces

For $180

The fastest route

To paradise

Toll free

Just stoplight

After stoplight

This

The penance to be paid

To get to sand

And cool water

Just get me to the beach