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On the side of the road

11/1/2022

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Down-winding to a H...A...L...t
Jalopy piece of shit
with the real faux leather interior,
rusted shut trunk,
and a sticker I can’t quite peel off that
says:
“If you can read this, you’re too close.”

A strange woman with wire-rimmed glasses
and a chihuahua wearing a sweater in the backseat
pulls over

and asks if I need
Help?
But I tell her I don’t
and she edges back out into traffic.

In my warped rear-view mirror,

I watch the speck of noise vanish.
Others follow---
Some stop,
though most are only

spits of showroom chrome
flying past the point of my break-down.

Darkness descends
on the side of the road
and it is then that I realize
I have
no
engine.


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