M5

This road must be the longest in the universe.

Concrete and concrete and concrete.

I fiddle with my phone,

follow the jagged blue line to Bude.

A few months ago I would have spent the journey

sending Jacq crude emojis

and taking sly photos

of losers on the bus,

their mouths gaping open in sleep.

Now I have no one to message

and nothing to go back to.

I hope Kelly-Anne still has space for me

in her life.

Concrete and concrete and concrete.

The longest road in the universe.