Scenes from a Traveler

Imagine the scene, if you can,

as if three days after the Titanic

and your ideals about humanity's

superiority are shattered and sunken,

and even if we are superior that doesn't

give us good values off the get go

So the scene changes, to Blanche's tango

from Streetcar Named Desire where

she's stuck in an endless loop of the worst

moment of her life, of your life,

You fast forward, three years,

to see if it's worth it and the scene is like

Death Valley itself, barren, like Mars and

you try to go back but you are changed

now and you carry that future with you

avoiding eye contact with a

human incarnation of self-fulfilling prophesy.