i missed my exit before i learned to drive hands on the wheel before i had to strive seatbelt tightens when i think of leaving like it knows the end and what is dealing still warm, still here, still moving through it ends with me not recognizing the person i’m talking to lost on the road to nowhere but nowhere’s already there every wrong turn feels inherited i crossed out something i regretted i’m not lost, just pre-recorded every choice already chose watching myself in reruns i don’t lose lost on the road to nowhere don’t stop the car it only loops you faster my reflection drives a second late copies me with worse intent rearview shows a version smiling like it knows how this is spent lost on the road to nowhere but nowhere’s already there every wrong turn feels inherited i crossed out something i regretted i’m not lost, just pre-recorded every choice already chose watching myself in reruns i don’t lose lost on the road to nowhere every second skips a beat time stutters but never breaks just rearranges what it takes lost — to nowhere —5x there’s a voice using my voice ahead of me he’s ordering coffee i don’t want they call my name before i reach the counter like i showed up yesterday, or not i try to speak out of sequence throw the script into the street but the words realign behind me marching back into my repeat lost on the road to nowhere but nowhere’s already there every wrong turn feels inherited i crossed out something i regretted i’m not lost, just pre-recorded every choice already chose watching myself in reruns i don’t lose lost on the road to nowhere the car stops the movement doesn’t i step out into a moment that’s already closing lost on the road to nowhere and nowhere shuts the door i finally arrive somewhere new lost on the road to nowhere and it recognizes me first
