The Stupid Bus

for the 33 Everyone must get

on the stupid bus
going in the wrong direction

in one big loop
instead of here to there.
Everyone must get

used to absurdity
on the stupid bus
going in the wrong direction.

It’s like a joke nobody gets
delivered like one
everyone must get,

How you could have walked
a mile the right way instead of
going in the wrong direction,

if you didn’t sweat, and if
you didn’t have so much to carry.
Everyone must get

on, so there’s camaraderie,
and plenty to see out windows
going in the wrong direction.

Anyway it’s an unacknowledged truth
that to get going at all-- you, me,
everyone-- must get
going in the wrong direction.