A Ride Home
through the boulevards of west LA
along the sidewalks of Bucharest
up the alleyways of Athens
and
down the lanes of Woodford
i see the hitchhike home that summer
early 2000s
3 or 4 lifts
from London past Birmingham past Stoke all the way to hit Lancaster
a honeymellon sun and skies neverending
and i walked through the town
and i knocked on the door of my mother’s house and she opened it
saw her son
pleased to be home
and she said, ‘what are you doing here?’
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