18 February 2013

20 on the 261

It’s cold. I can tell by the clouds that I breathe out. I wonder how much longer it’ll take spring to arrive. Probably not as long as it takes my stupid bus to arrive. I feel like I’ve been waiting for an hour. It’s probably been about ten minutes. The two sixty-one takes me home. It’ll take around twenty minutes. Twenty minutes before I can wash up and get back to work. 

I’m sitting in a single seat near the rear door. My left elbow is awkwardly resting on the too-high window rim. I probably look like an idiot, but I don’t care. It’s comfortable. It’s slowly getting darker outside. The brightly lit displays of the lamp stores along Jongno are starting to make sense. I wonder how much they pay for electricity each month.

Gramatik is playing his instrumentals as the driver shouts something at the man who just got on the bus. He’s old. I wonder why the driver must be so rude. The man bows and takes a seat. I quickly lose interest and focus on the world that passes by my window, from the luxury stores in Myung-dong to the homeless shads at Seoul Station. Soon I get off and I’m finally home.

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