the galloping tides
freeze dried examples
of cost cutting measures
no mistakes for a year only
to park wrong
European style
and find a ticket on the windscreen.
what inalienable force has
retched on me?
the cartographer's curse
that I should forever forget
my location
confuse bewilder chide tears
some thousands of flights leave daily
from every city
the travel bug is really something
more like
a plague
first full day back
everything too too much back to normal
same books waiting to be read
same clothes that need mending
same broken appliances
same dustbunnies
same problem children
walking past midnight
not to be arrested
same clothes waiting to be dumped
waiting for the fashion police
to liberate
same foul yard needing weeding
same staircase waiting for a banister
same websites waiting for polish
same woodwork wanting paint removal
same freakin' cat
oh wait, he's cool
same stupid food
same dishes unwashed before I left
same dismal situation
so what's different?
my indifference carries a new
attitude bent by something
not native to this country,
foreign to this house this life
causing it to tremble
and fear for its very existence