Michigan


 

Royal Oak #1

Reality peels away on a
drive home from work
with puffy clouds floating above
the smog.

In and out like the traffic
from one decade to the next
and none is quite the one I
expect.

All a dream. But a dream is
easier. This can’t be easier. We
live until we don’t anymore, and
nothing else is needed.

It’s a conservation of reality. One
slower but stronger; another
faster but fainter. All echoing
around like traffic horns

reeling back one to one.