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by: BanzaiDescent

Understand...

...that for a moment I was happy. Just me, alone on the southbound expressway at 11:55pm on the 31st of December. The road, a long drive through unlit spaces and tall trees, the horizon and everything else hidden in shadows except for bright lines painted on the asphalt. There are no other cars in sight. Death Cab for Cutie is my only company as I cut through a light veil of smoke at 70kmh. For a second I think an early fog has set in but suddenly the night sky explodes with a million red stars and a hundred green comets. I open my windows. I hear the explosions. It’s the New Year. By now I’m driving at a higher altitude and can see the towns below firing off roman candles and fountains and everything else that flies merrily and goes kaboom. Imagine the scenario. I push down on the accelerator, turn up the volume, roll down all the windows and let the wind sing. Left and right, rockets spear straight up through the darkness, aiming for outer space, and shatter into sparkling flames as if hitting an invisible ceiling. The smoke along the highway thickens but I am hurled forward by exhilaration, the explosions, the civilized madness. I feel like I’m driving through the happiest war in the world.
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