It was the first day of summer
several clouds drifted overhead
There was a white truck on the side of the road halfway stuck in a ditch
after a few weeks the highway patrol put a yellow sticker on it
the sticker meant: f you don't tow it - we will but they didn't
for several months it just sat there
windows shattered, seats torn up tires and radio long since stolen
a skeleton of a dead animal fur dried out and then gone
something that used to move around, not anymore
It was labor day,
there was not a cloud in the sky