A man came up to me the other day

A man came up to me the other day and

asked me what I do.

I smiled and peaked over

the rims of his glasses and

confidently sighed an answer--

like with the release of a deep inhale--

I say:

I wait.

I wait for buses to halt and pick me up,

for drivers to yell the next stop and

for destinations to come closer to me.

I wait for the moment when the car has

travelled double of itself.

Say, a car is 6 meters in length, I wait

for when it moves from 6 to 12 then 18

and so on.

I wait for the numbers to buzz by and I

miss them.

I wait for long-lines to shorten and

learned to tap my feet to tunes.

-Probably done 2 months ago.

There's another version of

this on my ipod

which I think I'll save for

a later post