Highway Hypnosis

Iris, peek-a-boo plays 

From under shutters

Weighed down

As if by stones 

Hung to eyelashes.

Sleep deprived minds

Fatigued senses

Weighed down

As if by sameness

Chin to chest falls.

Paradoxical sleep stages

REM in fragments

Jaded down

Driving long hours

On straight highways.

A spectator drives

As sleep in creeps

Guards down

To floating lights

Of approaching cars.

Cool tempered breeze 

Nonstop talking friends 

Get down

Get off those roads

Highway hypnosis.

(June, 2006, Nellore)

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