A Week in Review (Poem from the car I*)

Fried plantains and Lima beans
Fourteen hours in the car and airplane crash dreams.

Two fires but there wasn't any heat
After all this work, my spirit's just beat.

A meeting about happiness and strangers wept
I wondered if my story had any depth

Sadness instead hangs in the air.
It's a little overwhelming when you can go anywhere.

*Recorded on voice note while driving, Friday the 20th of November.