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Shoulder

from Stranger's Hometown by Man Rei

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My days have been going by like highway dreams,
where the dry mouth keeps falling open
as the head jolts onto the seatbelt.
It’s better to sleep in transit,
images pass half-unconsciously both
through the windows and the eyelids.

When I blink my eyes at the moon,
I fail to see the same red as to the noon-day sun,
so I keep them open like
the deer we drove over last week,
and I cannot do much about it,
I have given up on the drivers’ license.
I leave driving to the others,
who think they know where they are going,
and give some leeway to my own postponed directions.


I think I am a good traveller,
as I have no urgency on arriving,
neither do I make fixed plans.

I am also a good graveller,
as I fall apart well,
without the fixed self
that isn’t intent
on becoming anything
specific.

The first is something I have read,
and I guess it is reassuring
to be good in at least something
someone external would approve.
I can now pat my own shoulder.

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from Stranger's Hometown, released March 15, 2019

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