As you pass slowly

the even slower truck

and watch the growing line

of impatient cars

lengthening behind,

do you take interest

in the building tension?

Or after all these years

is the risk of moving

over over-rated?

The little people will surely

soon resume and then some,

and finally make it home

despite the irritation

of some lost momentum.

Last week we have driven nearly a couple thousand miles to Colorado and then up to Washington. We passed a lot of trucks. One night as a poetic exercise I began to imagine a stockbroker asking questions of a truck driver, using the language and categories of his or her own experience and assumptions. Who would have thought that these two widely disparate fields of endeavor could share so much?

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