Yesterday, a storm followed, churning the washes into rivers we crossed over, north into Texas, then Oklahoma. Firemen on the highway cleaning up the site of an accident with push brooms. Glass, mud, a motorcycle. Two hot dead lanes of tail lights pushing into the bridge and beyond where the exits must have been. A grilled fryer in the cooler with jamaica tea and melting ice. I called you. You didn't pick up.
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