It was a train
you know the kind
fast and on tracks and seats
at about 6.45am
there was a bloke next to me
typing on a laptop
not next to me but across from me
wearing a navy blue suit
not across from me but above me
drinking a can of Monster
and for a second
he looked a bit like an owl
not a beak
not eating a mouse
his head rotated 360 degrees
four times and
oh forget it

Carl Burkitt 2025

Exulansis is a sense of frustration when you realise that you are talking about an important experience, but other people are unable to understand or relate to it, and so you give up talking about it.