After driving backwards in time for one year I am now standing on the very same spot from which I left, but this time I am in someone else’s present. I pat down my pockets looking for a lighter and I feel like I am asleep and dreaming. I exist in a semi-permanent state of soft astral projection nowadays which confuses things for me sometimes, especially if I have just woken up, which I think I might just have. The person I am standing with reaches into their jacket pocket and hands me a lighter. It's green. I light the cigarette and my blurred outline sharpens up suddenly then snaps into focus as coordinates lock onto my location. I have always maintained that smoking can orientate in periods of uncertainty and in the duration of smoking one you can often get an accurate idea of where you are in space. Inhale, hold, look around, exhale and repeat until all the data is in..
