San Luis Obispo, 8 March 2026  There are Germans

You hear California. You drive to San Luis Obispo. And there are Germans.

You get into the car and shake the salt from your shoes and you turn the key and sit there in the car and wish you were an American mountain range.

You drive to San Luis Obispo to relax and have a beer, and so you sit there in the car to San Luis Obispo, wishing for a beer, lighting a cigarette.

And the radio is on and the radio is on and the man on the radio is talking and the man on the radio says there are Germans. It’s nine o’clock and you hear California and the Germans built a wall and the Germans are to blame for two world wars.

So you live in the car and you drive to San Luis Obispo and you think that everyone should drive to San Luis Obispo sooner or later. And the man on the radio laughs, there are Germans.

It’s eleven o’clock and you hear California and the man on the radio says it’s a terrible heat and then announces music and a voice speaks and sings of California love and you sit there thinking rest in peace and thinking about the terrible heat out there.

You drive to San Luis Obispo and read yourself away from it. You appear on television, only the name is misspelled. The man on the radio says it’s noon and the sun has scorched itself on the other side of the earth.

It’s one o’clock and you hear California and you listen and listen and don’t stop. You get out in San Luis Obispo and fall asleep in San Luis Obispo and wake up in San Luis Obispo. And there are Germans.