Changes (Eluvium Remix) - Sandro Perri
Sandro Perri
Changes / Love & Light Remixes (2012)
You are on the bus shifting gears downhill to your pointless job. You know all the faces on this bus. You get picked up at the start of the line, when the morning light is still watery and pale. You get picked up alongside construction workers who smell like coffee and the calcium in concrete.
Your apartment this far south secures you a window seat. You sit in the row just ahead of the folding back doors, where the breeze carries the sounds of the world waking up.
You have a choice. You can lull yourself into falling asleep with your head resting against the window pane. You can miss your stop by a few blocks and not care, admit your exhaustion. Or you can grit your teeth and encourage the nausea of undirected energy. You can feel alive, an artificial thrill playing through headphones. You can step onto the sidewalk like a boxer, bouncing on your toes. Shifting your shoulders. Light as air and buzzing. You are flashing your eyes (zing! pow!) at anything that moves. You are suspended for six delicious minutes in a world of satisfaction.
You smooth your shirt in front of the bathroom mirror. Examine your skin under fluorescents. Sit in a chair that squeaks, and stare at a screen.