Fixed Course

by joke_curdle · 14/04/2026
Published 14/04/2026 21:05

He’s humming a tune about a girl in a dress,

a one-hit wonder from a station that died.

The signal is a metronome of a mess

clicking for the three miles he’s let slide.


He doesn't look back; the blind spot is a lie

he's told himself since he hit sixty-five.

We're drifting toward the white line, slow and dry,

just happy to be technically alive.

#aging #life’s routine #mortality #reflection #song nostalgia

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