he disappearedhad no other choice 

                                      the hood bruised his thigh before he could completely dematerialise

                                                                                                         the driver saw him in the crosswalk the last second before impactthat didnt happen for him terrifiedhe saw his eyeshis face the driver swerved hard left and crashed into a semi that idled waiting to make a left onto the towns main artery which paralleled the highway

        a tremendous crash  the driver mistaking his gas pedal for the brake

   he didnt materialise until he was almost across intersectiondidnt attract any attention because all eyes were paying keen attention to the treacheroussmoking wrecks behind him 

   No  he wasnt going to attestbe a witness  let the driverif he survived and the authorities sort it out 

                                                                                                            hed done enough

   he wonderedbriefly  how that stress might physically have affected his body   psychically  becoming something other-dimensionally  soothed himits gentle hand assuring him that aside from the nanosecondfright which catapulted him 

     hed be fine

stepping up onto the street curbnot looking back he returned to reading 17 Dikter 17 Poems 1954  by Tomas Transtromer from new collected poems  titled 

                                     the great enigma

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