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LEARNING THE ROPES
Adjust the mirrors, slide the seat -- on a soft hum, the hybrid Nissan
glides into a circle swarming with traffic.
One needs so many eyes!
Here, rivers of cyclists insist
that every other form of transport
should yield. Driving on the “wrong” side resembles a lucid dream – you know you’re in it when doors open the opposite way
and everything’s reversed compared to being awake. Bloody Google Maps speaks too late and we miss the turn...
So much surveillance here.
Trying to avoid the freeway to goodness-knows-where, I dare to take a forbidden avenue
while digital eyes gleam above the rented car. In Ikea’s toilets I cry
then brace myself and walk to