i bet you can't wait to be back in your own bed
and back to familiar settings
back out there where it's quiet and comfortable
where you'll look out the window at that same view
the same view, the same view, the same view, the same view,
and you will see a van in the distance, a glimpse of movement
flitting between some estate-sprawl road,
and you will blink
surprised
that this place has any motion at all.

03/03/24