third person

   

she decides she should be somewhere else

driving a different car than the one

she is in with him

so she pulls over to the

side of the road and stops

takes the keys from the ignition

gets out and walks away down the road

walking in the direction the car was going

but leaving it behind

as if she knows there is another car

somewhere up ahead

and her keys will fit into its locks

and start its engine

just like they have opened and started

everyone so far

and the man in the car

who was sitting there alone

in himself with her

is now just there alone

the car is empty of the hundreds of people

that she had brought along with her

the crowd of herself

that was never the same

they are all walking down the road

with her swinging her keys

singing softly to themselves

and the man in the car

who was with her in the car

doesn't understand what she is doing

he doesn't know where he is

he gets out of the car

and looks down the road after her

trying to see how small

and far away she has become

but the sun is fading

the end of the road

is in the pocket of one of the women

that is walking away

and the blueness of the sky is fading

as if there were somebody

at the other end

dragging it along behind them.