Train Journey

Is this seat available?

Forced to sit with ourselves -

great.

Do you take this train every day?

It really depends,

but I'd just be lying to myself.

How long have you been traveling?

Too many years, if I'm talking to the window

or too few (after all, I still talk).

And where are you going?

If only I knew, friend, I would already be there,

or maybe I would have never left.

Where are we now?

Let me see: I'd say halfway there,

like always.

Can you tell me the time?

Excuse me, but do you have a ticket?

A ticket?

Yes, a ticket.

It always works. My reflection hops off the train, finally leaving me alone.

Impossible to say with whom.

by J.R. Forbus

J.R. Forbus, cartoon