Avid: A Departure

Not far from here:

No - it's not too far from here at all, that day, a day I've been through before but under entirely different circumstances.

It's the jetting out of my life, and I'm excited. I can start for a second time without any loose ends, without anything pulling behind me.

It's kind of like a couple driving off in a limo with "Just Married" written on the back, but it's not, it's me driving a little car with "Just Me" written in big emphatic letters. A bumper sticker below it promising the world it's true.

Smiling; much more fun than pouting. Laughing; WAY better than sobbing. Excitement; infinitely more enjoyable to deal with than uncertainty.--

(It's with a smile)

"Kind of an unabashed look at the past wouldn't you say? Is he going to show any kind of discretion?"
"What do you mean discretion? He's not actually saying it is he?"
"No... but still, there's not much covering what he's talking about, you can't deny that."
"It's about as thin as a mosquito's wing, but who's to say that it even needs to be hidden?"
"I don't know, I just think it shows a lack of tact - he hasn't thought about that since... I can't even remember when, but bringing it up now just shows th-"
"Shows what? That he's still harping on it?"
"That's what it looks like to me."
"Then you and I are seeing two totally different pictures."
"How do you figure?"

(The dial turns)

--Push the postage to the courier and know
he'll get it to where it needs to go.

(The song changes)

--It was over before it began but where
did it go if it never made it home again?

(The wavelength finds its nocturne)

--And to whom is it owed if not once to the person
who wouldn't have ever thought it'd happen anyway?

(And all is left hanging from the hinges)

--And to the open roadway do the tires speed, vacationing from the unseen ends of green and trees towards living that's bound to be serene.--

(silence)

--So there it is: carefully sculpted upturned lips with naught but the hint of a sheer disposition to show their genesis.