Doug Sylver

Reruns

On the KTX. Return to Seoul. Train from, not to, Busan. No zombies, yet. So many films. Watched Parasite on the plane. 

Again. Still love it. Class divisions. I ride the subway. I smell like fermenting cabbage and dried fish. We are what we eat. 

But we took a taxi from our hotel, overlooking the beach from the seventeenth floor, to Busan Station. Back in Seoul, we’ll be maybe ten blocks from where we stayed a week ago. Like going home, almost.

just passing through
at two hundred 
miles per hour
old man gardening
without looking up

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About the Author

Doug Sylver’s writing can be found in Drifting Sands, The Sun Magazine, The New York Times and Fixator Press, among other publications. He is a recently retired public high school teacher and lives with his love, Monica, in Seattle.

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