passing the rivers, the construction sites, the fields, the trees, I watch a truck pass in a shape I have never seen. I see a girl with decorated skin speed ahead to my left. I pass plains and fields of dead trees. there are lone buildings near broken telephone poles, and as I traverse the length of this white lake, a similiar bird lifts itself up from the water and into the sky, as if it knew I had arrived, as if it were putting on a show just for me. as if it were all just for me. as if it were all just for me.