I have given myself time & driving hear 
(in my head) 
    a former employer: “If you’re not early, you’re late”  
(on the speakers) 
    a 1984 sample from The Art of Noise in The Prodigy’s “Firestarter”:
 
// hey, hey, hey // 

Driving, I am thinking of samples    
                rich with implications– 
                        echoes extending outward 
                                from their origin 
                                        transferring energy
                                                
                                                    // hey hey hey //

Tapping the steering wheel with my thumbs,
    a genetic sample/duplicates of my grandmother’s,
    (a child memorizes the hands that cook and bathe and hold)
I retrace how recently travel triggered panic in me 
    (how someone moving away has always felt like heartbreak)
    (how an inciting event can echo for decades)
and how it’s taken a few years to reroute my brain

// hey, hey, hey //

&
I am Driving again!
&
I have given myself time
enough to not accelerate through curves,
though I still hear
(in my head)
    Dad: “Remember, you always have your brakes”
(also in my head)
    a 1983 sample from Yes in The Art of Noise’s “Close to the Edit”
so
I Sing:

// don’t deceive your free will at all //

as I arrive
    neither early nor late