Situations

This one time
I sat in Dolores Park overlooking San Francisco
listening to “Best Day Of My Life”
checking out stylish people
on a borrowed iPhone
dancing bright yellow frames
all over the city
an advertisement friends were making
on tight budget
thus the cinematic favor.

This other time
I sat in a crammed bus returning to Nairobi
listening to “Best Day Of My Life”
stuck for hours
an accident
people overtake each other
on the steep Great Rift Valley roads
red dust in the air from shaggy wheels
makes it hard to see
a man threw suffocated sheep off his animal-stacked truck
they landed twisted, eyes closed
and the words
“Best Day Of My Life”
morbidly mocked the ambulance
speeding by.