Atlas

My passport is plump with intention I hand it to the guard and wait wait longer. He understands everything efficiently. But he doesn’t know what I am thinking about his overgrown

It is no good. Right foot is leaning on green, right hand pressed to the red circle left leg straddling the blue Atlantic, left knuckles propped on yellow.

The interpreter played every part (which complicated the fight scene). Their mouths made different shapes to the words she gave them. They wanted to say something else,

By the water that is not theirs to stand in tall birds jabber. No one staring at the back of this crowd can fathom what is so important that they all must busy themselves with it

You can’t give anything away that you don’t choose to so people can’t take anything from you, but you can let it go press it into their palm and say here, have it.