RACHEL:

But I was always afraid behind his car when he had driven
past alone in the red light with my imagination I heard
breathing the dark as I ran terrified back to his car
and jumped in to the sound of him laughing

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BOB:

I was never afraid in the bright light of his headlights
where I knew he could see me I felt his protection

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MARK:

He would put his breaks on for me to see in the forest
when I was little opening and closing the gates in fear
of the dark behind his car

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HENRIQUE:

And when I arrive I open the gate and drive my car through
and close it in the red tail light red like my father’s
rear lights red

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HERMES:

And I hope they’ve packed the brown crackers because
the white crackers don’t do it for me and they have and I drive
listening to nighttime radio slow between the trees that conceal
random animals that leap into roads

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LEE:

They ask me how I am and ask me to touch my card to the machine
with the bad connection and we wait and touch again

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MADSAKI:

The trees are weeping in the mist as I arrive at yours in the dark
with the curry from the takeaway house where they call me Mr Karl

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FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION:

You got something to say?
Would it make things better?
No disgrace in silence

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FAITH:

It was dark,
Now it’s not

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TO THE HESITANT:

Watch out for the undertakers,
Speeders,
Crawlers,
Tailgaters,
Honkers,
Flashers,
Weavers,
Everything

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