outrun

plastic bags
billow
phantoms
floating over
fields of brown
ghosts trapped
in trash unable
to find the
light

no matter
how hard i
press down
on the accelerator
the anxiety
stays nipping
at my heels

the spirits of
my ancestors
caught up in the
detritus of
a life squandered
screaming as i
rocket past
on a collision
course with the
inevitable

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