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The Move

Charles Michael Craven

When I finally came out of the fog
a man in a uniform was there to pick me up.

“You have two choices,” the policeman said. “Come with me to the station or go to the mental health unit at a hospital in Austin.”

I was puzzled.
He noticed.

“You drove your car here son,” he said flatly. “It is a crime or you can get help. I get paid either way.”

I didn’t remember driving, but I had been to jail.

“A new experience wouldn’t hurt,” I answered after what seemed like a day.

We got into his car and headed downtown.

I wasn’t all there yet in my head,
still ringing from the night before with enough Xanax and Kolonopin to kill a small horse.

“You’re lucky to be alive,” he said from the front seat.

“I’ve never been in the back of one of these things without handcuffs,” I replied.

We laughed
and he even let me pick the radio station.

I just noticed the trees in the distance,
the other motorists who had succeeded in moving forward in the day
and the brightness of a sun I had forgotten existed.

It was the best road trip I’ve ever taken.

Once I was there
I wrote
got blood taken a couple of times a day
ate
wrote
got my vitals checked
and took medicine –
not that different from any other day.

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