THE HIDDEN TRACK

The following passages are dedicated to Leopold, to the vernacular, to certain evil women (you know who you are), to certain wonderful people(they know who they are), to soft afternoons and quiet Sunday evenings, to Fall and seeing your breath for the first time since Spring, and to Isabelle Ya Feng ... a soul slipped by like two ships passing in the still, moonlit sea.
-- Abraham Ahmed, the Surfing Beatnik



Certain is the Sky and I...


From the last remaining few feet of the end of the final car, the caboose, I watched as the sky painted me a song of utter friendship as it glided inwardly into a final point of this my conical perspective.

WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I screamed at the plumes of black smoke that trailed rearward from the stacks so many cars ahead.

To where you have been... It seemed to respond. To clean-up the clutter I made and to right the wrongs I've instilled on those that've passed me by.

The smoke filtered into the blue turning grey as it melted away.

HAVE YOU NO FAITH IN ME?
HAVE YOU NO BALANCE?
NO BLINDFOLD?
NO ROBE?"

The sky continued its travel, as it always will, rolling backwards as if I'm the one slowly moving away from it in this my life-moving-forward-all-to-quickly solitary existence.

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