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Mr. Stryker, Do You Really Want Some Kind of War? (Prose Poem) by cat
The slightly older than middle aged man wears his sunglasses at the bus
stop and squints towards the sun waiting for his number to come up.
The ground vibrates, he looks up, squints to make sure he has the right
number, you wouldnât want to get on the wrong bus, and he steps on.
Why doesnât the bus have seat belts he wonders, as it rumbles and
bumps over pot holes and dips on the boulevard.
He puts his face to the plexiglas and looks for his stop, stop 47, the
vibration of the bus always helps him darken reality and slide off to
somewhere else, to a time where there was only two bus lines and the
drivers were always the same, he tries to fight his instincts by
counting the various stops, 40, 42, but he loses somewhere around stop
44.
The slightly older than middle aged man wakes up at stop 58, his swollen
eyes widen and he yells at the bus driver, âI told you I was stop 47.â
Through the rear view mirror the slightly older than middle aged man
sees the bus driver rolling her eyes at him and shrugging her shoulders.
âPeople just donât give a damn anymore,â he says just loud enough
for her to hear.
âMaybe you should get a car old man,â jokingly says a passenger
across from him, a boy with brown eyes and a shaved head.
He scowls and steps off the bus; he removes his sunglasses, and crosses
the street, to catch the bus.
Back to the stop that he missed.
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