Narrativity (to Jeremy, loosely)

A.
i am pulling down
the on-ramp behind a
grand am
and i am thinking of you
and a discussion
on narrativity

how i would build
this story from
the way this guy in the
next lane
bends his head to fluff
his hair by the square of
his rear-view mirror

and a woman
in an old tan chevy
blazer
bearing down
swerving
around my car
ultimately caught fifty
feet on where all the
traffic lanes are clogged

B.
she pulls closer
to a toyota, too close and it
bugs me so i think about reasons
she might have
this morning
for being late
and, i guess, for staying within
the lane lines

what would it take for us
to cut loose, drive up the shoulder
etc.?

she weaves
with her equipage of
primary
and secondary
conflict

(the four-lane montage
flows now around a
bend eastbound
into the slap
of the morning
sun)

C.
you
our old discussion
the woman with her
unknown rationale
cell-phone conversations
going by unheard
all these like points
along a rising
action
this traffic
crisis jam up easing to

resolution
the open road.
but still it is
a driving
upon this same road.