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You are climbing off your roof, down the ladder

You are adjusting your goals

You are a specific human being with a general hunger

You are stepping in puddles of shit and rain

You had imagined this differently, a different landscape

Something with ceiling fans and gas stations

Something with more places to hide

A diner with too-hot booths made of cracked leather

Where a dusty man, too old, wants to buy you a cup of coffee

You nod because here is someone

You were waiting for someone

You were carving words into your placemat with a dry pen

Instead there is this

Gravity has relaxed and

Slowly, slowly, everything is turning into everything else

You maintain a feeling of slight inebriation

The ringing in your ears echoes off the horizon

The geometry of this place is beginning to decay

You were waiting for something

You feel like you should be carrying something, a passport or some currency

You used to explain yourself in objects

You were waiting for someone whose mind reminded you of yours

You will find yourself with your face resting against the window

It is cold, and your head is pounding from the gray glow outside

Your eyes will focus on the condensation on the glass

This will be an accurate representation of how you spent your time:

So fresh, so filthy, digging blindly underground toward the sky