Maybe

MAYBE

Another way is to get a place

with the question, share a living  

room until the two of you grow 

so comfortable in your towels

and dinner silence that the long trip 

becomes bearable in its lack 

of back and forth. It may even turn

out, despite the clear, concise 

directions you were hoping to hear

from the passenger seat,  

that this mute companionship 

is as close to an answer 

as you'll need to keep you

from interstate despair 

when a particularly flat stretch

yawns between you and getting there.