Afflatus.

In the morning, my cold
Car rolls on, sounding
Like tincans sadly trailing
The wedding car weeks after the honeymoon;
Its muffler, its antenna
In poor shape, upholstery
Flat and dirtprinted from enthusiastic
Children

Its windscreen fogs happily,
Letting the driver in on
The screw that he is still
alive

and by his very breath
is providing evidence of
sentient motion, taking
space, obscuring the view
and the way