Still Driving

Open by asking how much further. Push off from this if it helps: an unattended microphone.

How much further? This unattended mic is picking up my sighs. I can hear the static of my own boredom. The road’s just gray noise now. Stop judging me with your silence. It’s not helping. I’m just driving.

Open by returning to a subject you dropped an hour ago. Push off from this if it helps: the sound of a distant lawnmower.

That sound, that lawnmower—it’s aggressive, isn't it? It’s the sound of someone trying to exert control over nature in a pathetic way. People obsess over the height of a blade of grass as if the world depends on it.…

Start by noticing something out of the window. Push off from this if it helps: a lighthouse.

That lighthouse's been sat there the whole time we've been on this stretch, feels like. We must've turned three times and it's still just... there, off to the right. Weird how they do that, tricks your sense of…