The poem starts mid-conversation, as if we've walked in on two people discovering they have something in common: both have habanero peppers. The speaker's reply, "awesome so do i," is breathless and delighted, the kind of excitement you feel when a small shared detail suddenly makes a stranger feel like a kindred spirit. From there the speaker leaps straight to a romantic fantasy of riding into the sunset together.
The twist comes in the last two lines. Instead of horses, the pair are "two jeeps / in a beatnik poem." That image is funny and a little odd. It borrows the old movie cliché of the sunset ride, swaps in machines, and then places it inside a literary style associated with road trips and restless freedom. The mood is playful and offhand, with a wink at its own silliness. The speaker seems sincerely happy, but also aware that this kind of instant romance is a bit absurd, which makes the poem warm and teasing at once.