Awareness

During hours spent in a slow life on the road, we experience a unified isolation,
while we are compelled to group waiting in the traffic that we are contagiously annoyed with,
both individually and together. Interaction with strangers goes without noticing,
what happens on the road depends on our own and the others’ decision.
Rear mirrors reflect the stares of other drivers,
everyone doing something, calling, talking, and rubbing their nose.
We keep watch for controls, a police car, a dead cat on the road,
those who overtake us, those we leave behind,
some turning left or signaling from the right side,
all unified in waiting for one another.