My right brain was tired.
My left brain said,
Let’s go on an “outing”.
What kind of outing?
Pretend you are a visitor from outer space
With a translator
Or you just woke from a 40 year coma
And you remember nothing of this world.
This will be fun (for me).
OK.
We will take the first road we come to.
I’m all ears.
These roads lead to
Other inhabited places
Of greater or lesser size,
Population, and importance.
This one leads to a much larger road
That runs north and south.
If we go left (north) we will cross a bridge
When we get to it,
That must have been a joke.
A bridge is a structure
That carries the road across a canal.
If we go right and keep going we would come to Miami.
OK, I’ll bite. What is Miami?
A city
Named after a Native American tribe
Of the Algonquian family,
Formerly located in northern Indiana, southern Michigan,
And possibly Illinois
But no longer in existence,
Some of these roads cross other roads at intersections
What are intersections?
They are points at which two or more roads meet at right angles.
Here you can find strip malls,
Which are large buildings or a series of connected buildings
Containing a variety of retail stores
And typically also restaurants.
And poor neighborhoods
Yes, where the people live and work
And pay taxes
To finance the all-powerful invisible government
That uses our taxes to wage endless war.
They are poor
Because they are lacking sufficient money
To live at a standard considered comfortable
By the dominant society that defines “poor”
And “normal”.
But, for example, you might hire someone
From that neighborhood to fix your drain.
Oh, there is Nate’s Autobody and Collision Center!
I forgot to mention, to do any of this
We will need to be in a car.
A car us a four-wheeled road vehicle
That is powered by an engine
And is able to carry a small number of people..
Sounds indispensable!
It is a “nice” day.
A nice day means the region of the atmosphere and outer space
Seen from the earth, is blue.
The term blue generally describes
A color perceived by humans
Observing light with a dominant wavelength
Between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.
You are really in your element, aren’t you?
We will park in a parking space.
Next to the car there might be a palm tree,
An unbranched evergreen tree with a crown
Of long “feathered” or fan-shaped leaves,
And typically having old leaf scars
Forming a regular pattern on the trunk.
Its feathered leaves do not mean that it is related to the bird,
The warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate
Distinguished by the possession of feathers,
Wings, and a beak that might be singing in the palm tree!
And now we will go into “Target”
Where we will buy something that we don’t need
Or several things
In order to enjoy the air-conditioning.
Air-conditioning?
A system or process for controlling the temperature,
Humidity, and sometimes the purity
Of the air in an interior space.
Finally, we will go home
By “back-tracking”,
Retracing our course,
Until we return to the place
Where we began our outing.
Or we can just stay here and pop a brew,
Ah yes, a fermented carbonated drink
That makes men talk about sports.
Exactly.
Gary Lindorff - Nine Waves 