No More Learning

On these glowing hot afternoons in the funnel in Lyon, in the hellish Rheine valley near Cologne, or caught in Irschenberg, Europe's longest parking lot, in a 30-mile-long caravan of immobile and hot steaming
steel, dark thoughts rise into the air just like black exhaust fumes; drivers gain historical- philosophical insight; critical words for civilization pronounced in           escape their lips; the obituaries of modernity blow out of the side windows; whatever school degree the drivers have, they come to the conclusion that it cannot go on like this for much longer.