I sat in the car after I got back to the apartment complex earlier. OtR’s “Poughkeepsie” had just started playing on the stereo, and I sat there in silence and listened to it all the way through. My eyes scanned the contents of the car in the dark, which I usually keep fairly clean, but was a bit cluttered tonight. The factory repair manual sat in the back seat, pages dogeared and greasy from use. Underworld’s Pearl’s Girl<\/i> EP topped a stack of cds in a cardboard box on the passenger seat. And my toboggan perched on the front edge of the seat next to the little wicker basket filled with candy, my mom’s Easter gift. I fingered the car keys in my palm, running my index finger and thumb along the dull, serrated edges of the metal. The stop-start cadence of the song continued, just a guitar and her voice, singing words whose tone reached me more readily than their literal meaning. <\/p>\n
It’s quiet in the apartment. I have a bad case of the Sunday nights. The heat, which we had turned off last week in the midst of the stellar weather, is back on again, though it only comes on for a few minutes at a time, very infrequently.<\/p>\n
I feel like going for a nice long run. Hitting the blacktop is the ticket.<\/p>\n
I’ll be gone in just a few short months, not too far away but far enough. I’m more than ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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