“My GPS Is Set Towards Awe” — digital collage AleXander Hirka

Just A Few More

Looking Ahead On HWY 69

3 min readDec 22, 2020

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At this point of the journey
just a few more is the practical approach.
PS. And see how it goes.
You’d hardly have thought that at 20 30 40
even at 50
you’d be planning a lifetime.
But now maybe 2 3 4
5 or more would be great
—springs summers winters autumns.
And maybe a few more trips across the sea
or to the desert.

Sinatra never sang about the November Of My Years.

Celebrities
those with accomplishments,
the recognized!
(even if just for knowing how to stand in front of a camera)
they make the news.
And when they show up at the front desk to check out
—they always announce of how many spins
around the sun they made.

Guess I won’t be included in the list
of creative spirits who died at 68.
Josephine Baker, Dmitri Shostakovich
Rita Hayworth, Kōbō Abe, Shel Silverstein
Rene Magritte, Paul Hindemith
Miguel de Cervantes
and millions of others.

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Writer, visual artist, philosopher, autodidact, curmudgeon. More than half of what i do is make believe. https://alexanderhirka.nyc