Are You Hurtling Towards God Knows What?
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Inside a speeding car, somewhere in the afterlife, the driver calms her brother with strange and hopeful tales. He responds in kind, and so they pass the time with poems, as they furiously race towards their uncertain end.They tell each other stories of East German circus clowns crossing the border and buffaloes riding the Subway. Ghosts wander a post-apocalyptic mansion and doomed lovers plot an ice storm getaway. Memories of London mix with robots in the future as they meet an escapologist's daughter, and the Invisible Man in a Times Square hotel.So settle down in the back seat and be taken on a journey from the past to the future and to beyond the grave.
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Are You Hurtling Towards God Knows What? - J.E.A. Wallace
Are you hurtling towards
God knows what?
by J.E.A. Wallace
Copyright©2018 J.E.A. Wallace
Published by Unsolicited Press
For my family
The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Different Taillight Every Time
We are level with the horse drawn carriage
when the radio reports the weather
‘There’s rain coming down so hard ahead
it's stripping all the vultures of their feathers’
She mutters ‘Hell’ and shifts it up a gear
The black horse looks across and scowls
but we are only one of a hundred thousand
trying to win by fair or foul
To our left is a bishop on a motorbike
a cigarette between his teeth
He says something to the wild-eyed horse
something about the power of belief
But me and her we don’t believe in nothing
only the horizon and the race
At the end said the radio is one row-boat
that takes you out to star strewn space
We don’t know what happens to the left behind
I don’t think we want to know
The raindrops crash on our windscreen
and a fierce wind starts to blow
‘How far do