~ Meredith ~
Commuterland
Five mornings a week you read the news.
Young people in Cairo, rebuffed and beaten, refusing to submit, bringing down thirty years of tyranny. An oil company accused of dawdling on paying for environmental damages done in the Gulf of Mexico has signed a deal worth billions allowing it to drill in the fragile ecology of the Arctic Ocean off Russia. It’s Fashion Week in New York City, and everybody is agog over the new Christian Louboutin stiletto named for Blake Lively—US$1495.00. The Australian man in England is fighting extradition to Sweden after publishing American documents revealing secrets about Afghanistan.
Five mornings a week you get off at your stop, rebuffed and beaten, and head for the toxic environment of the office, wearing your Nike Air Monarchs—US$52.85, aware that the only secret you have is the secret fear that the world is changing all around you while you’re stuck on a subway car reading about it.
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