Today I walked in a parking lot with my eyes closed
And pretended that the soft roar of passing cars
Was actually the crashing tide,
Believed that my green flip-flops tread
Hot sand and not gray asphalt,
And in that moment I hoped for extinction.
Today I saw a baby girl
Trapped in a shopping cart with
The biggest brown eyes I’ve ever seen,
Beside my own,
She looked so disillusioned,
Or maybe it was my reflection.