#175 Kevin Brophy 'In the long run'

#175 ‘In the long run’

We are going out to the rubbish dump

to take photographs of wrecks.

We might drive on past the wrecks

to the low hill in the distance

where nothing happens

not even mobile reception

but it will be a chance to drive

into the East as the sun slides away

and feel sand beneath the car

like an ocean swaying under us.

We will sail on back to the West

wiser men and even wiser women

talking of the stones we saw,

the heaps of them that must mean something

in the long run.