Athens monday night still summer
Exit the bubble @ dusk. Right
Step out when no longer prime daylight
Daytime is for trading scores & bores
Nighttime is nonbinary. It’s tranquil
Like silent church bells
Night is all yours
Point the wheel toward downtown
New to this city but the vector feels right
Appetite’s back now. Riding north
With food on my mind and
A 2-point list of stuff to buy,
Eat first then meet the guy
Now I get the chow to mien on,
Special fried rice, it’s nothing dangerous
Bag it and bounce. 10 euros was the total
Exit left. Spot is minutes away
Pickup the cane to lean on
And 2 weeks’ herb to fume off of at dawn
The day’s work done,
Transfer took 20 seconds.
Reignite the sled
Hoof a snoot on the fly and
Spin, we gone
Bouncing back to the port
Freeway is Flashing Lights
Hi beams cast light dreams off matte blacktop
The future is now,
Apparently
Lights turned green, dummy
Calm outside like
Retired STOP signs on empty streets
Monday nights R gentle
No feeding frenzy
Meeting only elementary needs
No small talk, nothing tangential
Warm hellenic wind flows up my arm & into the car,
Layering the air, one soft thermal above AC level
Dog’s waiting in room 44 for the Chinese rice to-go
Right on
Prefer K9 companions to eating solo
ETA is already -3
Can food runs and swag grabs always be so smooth in this town?
For now
Enjoy the powwow
Pain in right neck all gone
Tingles running up the spine and
Amygdala reactivated like Rip Torn.
Pineal gland got new Christmas lights, blinking red-green, off-on
Synthetic satori can be bought, after all.
Just can’t be stored
Anyway
It won’t last long past dawn
Yay never was one to depend upon
Not a keeper
Unless it’s bricks in a safe
Like on game night when it’s over and done
1 in the morning
No double-parked cars on the flyover no more
Once - then gone
Kinda like
a
Deserted stadium
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