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High
ways and night songs
Part
1: The long way home
so this is me, right in the middle of the road, right in the
middle of this wide and wild road that takes me back home,
all the way from Belgium, all the way from Brussels, and what
a great road it is, taking the long way home, a way i have
never travelled before, a way that moves from the city streets
of Brussels towards the South, from Flanders towards Wallonia,
passing Waterloo, passing Rochefort, crossing the Ardennes
to get to Luxembourg, tempted just a moment to stop there,
but then going on, on and on, through the yellow fields and
over the green hills of Lorraine in France, across the Moselle
to Alsace, through small towns, almost down to Strasbourg,
and then across the Rhine to Germany, Baden-Baden, Stuttgart,
a last change of roads, a last change of lanes, before it
eventually comes to a halt, some four countries later, some
six hundred and something kilometres after Brussels, some
six hours from the start
i
get my bags out of the car, but i leave them downstairs, i
am too high to unpack them yet, still high from all those
highways raced down, from all the hills passed, from all the
valleys crossed. high ways, that really is the right word
for those roads, ways that make you high, ways that take your
thoughts spiralling somewhere in the sky, and i can still
see them there, they aren't back with home either, they are
still lingering next to the hazy clouds, talking to the trees
that wander along the horizon
and
it's while i pour myself a cup of coffee that i wonder how
i could think twice before i took that route, why i even considered
going along the usual way that would have crossed straight
back to Germany from Brussels and then straight down to Stuttgart,
following the map&guide route that only comes with the
options 'fastest way' and 'shortest way', as if that would
be all that there is about life, as if the ways you take in
life were of no importance themselves, as if any way could
take you back to the start
Part
2: A change of ways
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