“You want to ask, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely”

Annotation

I imagine myself in this speaker's shoes, in her mind. I see myself driving down the country backroads of my small Iowa town; I see myself in a few short months traveling across the Midwest to my new home on the West Coast. I imagine myself in her mind, her lonely, wandering mind. And I understand. 

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