![[3-road-rage-sound.mp3]] HEY, MISTER! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING i yelled too late as i let you veer into my lane from 1,751 miles away a crash or a miracle? to my surprise you walked out, opened the door for me like a gentleman and we surveyed the damage from your truck bed i didn't know what to say so i gave you one long kiss and two quick knees that's how strangers on the highway get even, i think i even asked you to take a selfie so you'd never forget my face who needs insurance to collect our dues? when we can pay through memory <br> ## field notes this one's about disorientation, then redirection. i had strong verbal concepts for this one — that i thought would make it easy to write — but no...there were lines i really liked and had to throw out because i couldn't get the larger work to flow around them. then i abandoned my initial form after reading a work in progress that the inimitable [anthony thomas lombardi](https://www.instagram.com/prettytoneywrites/?hl=en) shared with me - somehow it freed this poem into what it became. audio is the hook from [NIKI's urs](https://open.spotify.com/track/50oEtTUNlce4TuZXQoJzXW?si=428846ede2504d97).