---
title: Stayed on the bus too long
id: stayed-on-the-bus
genre: verse

project:
    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
    class: autocento
...

It was a [gamble][] \
I lost---thought I could get closer \
than the library, stayed \
on past the admin building, \
back down the hill to my beginning, \
the driver's second-to-last stop. \
[I have to walk now][], \
through the wind and sun, past \
[traffic][] moving merrily along \
taking their own gambles \
staying on or getting off \
too soon.

[gamble]: hard-game.html
[I have to walk now]: lappel-du-vide.html
[traffic]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html