the walk of shame is so much longer here.
walking. bussing. bussing. walking. walking.
a forty minute ride is nothing with an ipod.
a broken, decrepit, worthless scatter of music.
i listened to all of the sad songs today.
and watched the city of ilgok pass me by.
forty thousand people i must have passed,
in that whole forty minutes.
i saw a woman standing in the window
of the hundreds of apartments that blurred by.
but she stood out to me.
she looked sad too.
and i thought,
if my life is so strong. so important.
so meaningful. in my own mind.
just think of the millions of thoughts,
dreams, and relationships that there are.
here, in this world.
they are all so important. so meaningful.
forty million thoughts on top of forty minutes.
i got home earlier than i wanted to wake up.
but look what i would have missed.