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The Threshold Mile

by @peter-christian-ness

The threshold, a kink in the continuum. A static line, 7" thick. An inch a mile, a million high-ways through low-days. Between freezing underpasses, mirrored in ice. Stray dogs passing, paying no mind, for there is none. Dying mice; too white for the whiteness. Give me a road and I'll follow across our fallow fields. At either end, a somewhere an anywhere; yielding, if anything, a brief love of the vastness of our expanses. In such terms, humans and roads are inseparable. Give me legs and itchy feet, and I will carry this filthy deed. "To go," for nothing but the words alone Like a redneck with his whiskey and his 12-gauge we rage full on. Give me recklessness, give me godlessness, give me symbolitude & contemplacency. Give me thoughtlessness, or better yet, leave me with instinct, and I will carry the rifle for the enigma-insignia of the Great Nation of Motion. And I endure to procure myself in two places at once.
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Nov 24, 2014
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