PassengerA Poem by PerditionI slid into the
seat an occupant more tattoos than hair in front of me the sound of a gracious voice and a swift hello a recent smell of cigarettes that did not offend This girl was a driver but just as everything has a deeper current so did she we talked while the city lights ushered us by and I listened carefully to her songs “Police involvement, panic attacks, an ambulance domestic violence- a father trying to get his daughter out from underneath her madness, “I take Xanax”, she said as the car swerved back and forth “I’m a nurse and a driver when I get the chance but this world is a monster and no one’s listening” I thought about war, Hitler, Stalin all that age endures, different countries, different cultures, death and the slow
churn that writes us into most days what a single beating heart can leave when they simply look away the moon bled down against the wet mirrored high-rises and
the speckled windows of late night workers still hard into their solicitudes What did it all mean? I told her she was not alone perhaps better days were not so far lose it all if you must find it again was a thought I
kept for her The car door opened…a green restaurant filled with cake and noise I read the coming stories picked up my Oliver and Basho the driver pulled away as I smiled rekindling her concerns and blowing her a
life filled with more At the entrance a young woman, pretty ogled the books and led me into the bar a cucumber martini and tuna plate to keep the wolves satisfied Over the drone I stared out into Paris, into Iceland and
Whales Turkey, Russia wondering if it all came around wondering if it was all inside these buildings the moon reigned a dark blue over the headlights I sipped and fell into a trance how fascinated the grand architect must be I left the tip and slid back into another seat with the air now a manipulative rain this driver was well and tame screaming over tolls missed exits and laughter the radio deeper than the few words of silence this world is a monster I thought…hard at work even
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