It’s March 29th, 2021, and my feet are propped on the dashboard as I watch rural Louisiana float by. It’s greener than we expected, my roommate and I agree, having grown accustomed to the bleached out grass and spindly trees lining the southeastern highways we’ve been going up and down for the past six months. It’s the perfect driving conditions, we agree, having weathered a small but aggressive bout of rain, and settling into a full day of slightly overcast, pleasantly grey skies, with lush grass, sprawling agricultural swamps, thickets of trees, and endless flatness lining our road. There’s something disquieting about the landscape, we agree - half-abandoned, eerie, anticipatory. New Orleans leads to Baton Rouge leads to Shreveport leads to Longview leads to Dallas leads to Fort Worth, with cities and towns and census designated areas scattered throughout. I stumble over Opelousas, Natchitoches, Atchafalaya; I look up Erwinville, Livonia, Valverda, the Louisiana university system as we pass through, reading Wikipedia articles out loud to my patient roommate.
no doubt you too have experienced time
no doubt you too have experienced time
no doubt you too have experienced time
It’s March 29th, 2021, and my feet are propped on the dashboard as I watch rural Louisiana float by. It’s greener than we expected, my roommate and I agree, having grown accustomed to the bleached out grass and spindly trees lining the southeastern highways we’ve been going up and down for the past six months. It’s the perfect driving conditions, we agree, having weathered a small but aggressive bout of rain, and settling into a full day of slightly overcast, pleasantly grey skies, with lush grass, sprawling agricultural swamps, thickets of trees, and endless flatness lining our road. There’s something disquieting about the landscape, we agree - half-abandoned, eerie, anticipatory. New Orleans leads to Baton Rouge leads to Shreveport leads to Longview leads to Dallas leads to Fort Worth, with cities and towns and census designated areas scattered throughout. I stumble over Opelousas, Natchitoches, Atchafalaya; I look up Erwinville, Livonia, Valverda, the Louisiana university system as we pass through, reading Wikipedia articles out loud to my patient roommate.