domingo, 5 de outubro de 2025

No car No soul.

 We finished the last of the work on top of the grassy hill
All the workers headed down the hill toward the small corrugated iton house 
with it´s dusty wide carpark full of old unmaintained cars the owner accumulated

They waved and said they´d meet me at the new bar in town, the stairs.
Externally it was stylish and new age internally it was a common pub
Uncomfortable wooden seats, wooden bar, sarcastic charismatic barman
secretly serving himself once every half hour under the counter

I looked for my car in the dusty lot
Daniel and Roger had already taken off in their beat up ute
They didn´t bother waiting, I´d have to ask for directions
But I couldn´t find my car

Did I even come in a car or had I hitched a ride in someone else´s
Did I even have a soul or had I been reflecting someone else´s
The afternoon came and went dusk made it harder to see my car
There was no car there, just like there was no feeling from inside me

So i looked at the ominous long gravel driveway it called me
I started walking, my thoughts sequestered by the seven kilometers walk
ahead and down the hill and into Wellington city where youth and light shone
so without a car and without a soul to speak of, I plodded along

Acceptance of my lot, cheap wrapper with an expensive gift inside
maybe even evidence there was something to me.

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