Day Tickets

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I don't like to think of day tickets as poems, because poems are sacred, and these are throwaway. Each one contains a single line that never made it into a song, from which I have formed short passages of text. I call them day tickets as I often find myself writing them to provide me safe passage through a dreadful day, of which there are more than I'd like. Below is the most recent dreadful day in which I could muster the strength to write.

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All aboard for the
great unknown.
Off to see our
long lost debasers.
Those who put the atomic bomb
here;
who broke their promises.
And, yes, I am still reeling.
Desperate.
Looking but not finding,
while the whole world is filling up
and up.

Sometimes, I think,
that'd be me that,
all full of air
and yet still too useless
to float.
What a useless fucking
balloon I would be,
so filled up with air,
and so desperate to pop,
just so I too
could break all my
promises.

- Elijah James-Hallows
Written: 10/03/2026 Published: 13/03/2026