You Can Only Run For So Long

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The wind shakes loose teeth out of a tree above us and winter appears inevitable. The hum goes on forever. When I anticipate silence and am alone, it's there with me. I think of all the abandoned motorlodges on all of the faded highways and all of the boys who ducked out of all the windows when the cops showed. The thing about leaving is that it compounds until at least once a year, I collapse into an unpacked suitcase and fill it with tears and leave no room for a sweatshirt so that I think of home every time I get cold and when we get to cruising altitude, and the seatbelt sign goes off, I imagine what it'll be like to be in the air the day the world ends and to see the mushroom clouds from above like blooming flowers. So, now do we just float here forever? Now that there's nothing left to land for.