I'm a ridiculous American sitting in a Burger King
On the side of the highway in another country.
It is actually Denmark.
It is actually beautiful.
I'm reading a novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
It is a story of Japan.
It is a story of a family
In the 1930s before World War II.
It was a long time ago.
It was a long ways away
As far as right here as I am to you.
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And I'm thinking that these truckers
At this truck stop in Denmark
Look almost like the truckers we have back home
And a van pulls up. It is a UPS van,
And I want to crawl inside it so I don't feel so alone.
And I cannot use my phone 'cause it is too expensive
And I hope the tour van remembers where I am
The radio is playing a song by Shakira.
I've heard it twice already; I'm gonna here it again.
I was told I would be waiting for two whole hours,
So I read my book at the Burger King.
And exactly at the end of the two whole hours
A van pulled up, and I was on the road again.
When order was everything