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I took a Greyhound from Atlanta to Oklahoma City once

While waiting I walked about three blocks for a pack of cigarettes

A lady wearing a long holey pocked pink shirt approached and asked for money

The five dollar bill dropped me down to eighteen dollars in my pocket

I’ve wanted a drug as bad as she did before, so maybe I enabled her

I must’ve been naïve to think the bus would go straight to I40 and then west

The first stop there was a woman with an old laptop and teddy bear back pack

She was laughing at a blank screen and playing with the teddy’s ear

I survived off sunflower seeds, cigarettes, and coffee

For the thirty-two hours it took me to get home

And to be perfectly honest,

I only thought I was going to be stabbed once.

I don’t advise anyone to take a bus in America

I suppose maybe if it was nonstop