riding the rocket

today i experienced what it must be like to suddenly go blind
(although perhaps spurred on by a recent rental: blindness)
i was riding the streetcar (no, not my bike for once because i'm a lazy sow sometimes), half-reading, easily distracted by the window, the sun peeking through the clouds, the shady but interesting folk at queen & sherbourne...
i looked down to pretend read again, and the instant i looked up out the window i saw white, pure white, for longer than a second, longer than a flash...just white.
it took longer than the millisecond it usually takes for my brain to catch up with the optical relay.
it turned out to be a truck. a big white truck.
funny how fear sets in quicker than realization.

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Music to my ears: Modest Mouse