The right and left brain enjoying a rare moment of comradery (a prose poem)

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My right brain was tired.

My left brain said,

Let's go on an "outing".

What kind of outing?

Pretend you are a visitor from outer space

With a translator

Or you just woke from a 40 year coma

And you remember nothing of this world.

This will be fun (for me).

OK.

We will take the first road we come to.

I'm all ears.

These roads lead to

Other inhabited places

Of greater or lesser size,

Population, and importance.

This one leads to a much larger road

That runs north and south.

If we go left (north) we will cross a bridge

When we get to it,

That must have been a joke.

A bridge is a structure

That carries the road across a canal.

If we go right and keep going we would come to Miami.

OK, I'll bite. What is Miami?

A city

Named after a Native American tribe

Of the Algonquian family,

Formerly located in northern Indiana, southern Michigan,

And possibly Illinois

But no longer in existence,

Some of these roads cross other roads at intersections

What are intersections?

They are points at which two or more roads meet at right angles.

Here you can find strip malls,

Which are large buildings or a series of connected buildings

Containing a variety of retail stores

And typically also restaurants.

And poor neighborhoods

Yes, where the people live and work

And pay taxes

To finance the all-powerful invisible government

That uses our taxes to wage endless war.

They are "poor"

Because they are lacking sufficient money

To live at a standard considered comfortable

By the dominant society that defines "poor"

And "normal".

But, for example, you might hire someone

From that neighborhood to fix your drain.

Oh, there is Nate's Autobody and Collision Center!

I forgot to mention, to do any of this

We will need to be in a car.

A car is a four-wheeled road vehicle

That is powered by an engine

And is able to carry a small number of people..

Sounds indispensable!

It is a "nice" day.

A nice day means the region of the atmosphere and outer space

Seen from the earth, is blue.

The term blue generally describes

A color perceived by humans

Observing light with a dominant wavelength

Between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.

You are really in your element, aren't you?

We will park in a parking space.

Next to the car there might be a palm tree,

An unbranched evergreen tree with a crown

Of long "feathered" or fan-shaped leaves,

And typically having old leaf scars

Forming a regular pattern on the trunk.

Its feathered leaves do not mean that it is related to the bird,

The warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate

Distinguished by the possession of feathers,

Wings, and a beak that might be singing in the palm tree!

And now we will go into "Target"

Where we will buy something that we don't need

Or several things

In order to enjoy the air-conditioning.

Air-conditioning?

A system or process for controlling the temperature,

Humidity, and sometimes the purity

Of the air in an interior space.

Finally, we will go home

By "back-tracking",

Retracing our course,

Until we return to the place

Where we began our outing.

Or we can just stay here and pop a brew,

Ah yes, a fermented carbonated drink

That makes men talk about sports.

Exactly.