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One Way Street

One Way Street

to have

a car

or a truck

or a motorcycle

or a boat

or a mower

or a golf cart

or whatever on wheels

and climb aboard

whenever you please

owner of the key

and for decades

you’ve sat at the wheel

millions of miles

open and shut

crank and back up

cruise and return

and you know every bump

every back road and dead-end street

every turn, every stop, every bridge, every track

could close your eyes

and still get back

and then just like that

the key’s on the rack

and somebody tells you

you can’t go back

and for the rest of it

there’s a window seat

and you pass the same tree

go through the same neighborhood

sit at the same lights

and watch the person

to the right

owner of the key

sitting there

at the wheel

with millions of miles

to go

and they think

they know

where they’re going

TL

Published inTamiko Lowery