Monday, December 13, 2004

The Center of the Milkyway is Somewhere in Ohio--

Four times in the last 3 years I have traveled the Ohio roads, around and in Cleveland, and 4 times I have witnessed the great unknown that seethes in the air that skims the asphalt...

Oh, haha it's funny at the time, my mom and I laughing at our action movie maneuver-quickly crossing 3 lanes of parkway traffic to meet a backwards exit, but we could have fucking died. Worst, we could have gotten sucked into a parallel universe, never to return to the unpaved and pot-holy holy holy roads of PA...

We could have gotten sucked into a parallel universe where there is sense in the road signs in Ohio, where Interstates don't appear and disappear without reason, and the Turnpike isn't an elusive road HOME. (A parallel universe where the interstates in PA aren't like booby traps and dead bridges over ravines.)

Ohio wanted us to stay, it kept swinging its arms around us, kindly, yet with all evil and loathsome intent. But, fortunatly, we made it out...alive even. And here I am to tell the story...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear the two of you made it out of the nexus of the universe alive and well. It'll be a story for your grandchildren.

And if I don't talk to you in the interim have a merry X-Mas.

~ Joe