This is the phase you will need to get through very quickly now. It’s already too late to plead ignorance, or a special case. You’ve strayed in- to the grey zone between care factors. On one hand: zero. And on the other: none. Someone is about to tap you on the sholuder, asking for something: papers, identity, drugs. It doesn’t matter what they want exactly, only how you react. It must be in time. It must seem casual, beyond effortless. You must act as if you truly could not care less. This is good. This is very, very good. As a reward, please find two single bus tickets enclosed. The first one will get you to the station. The second has already expired.
Övergången
First published in my chapbook Övergången in 2011 and republished online in Jacket2 in 2012.

2 Comments
Awesome. Love it.
Thanks Ives!