Editing: Mad Skills or Just a Symptom of Something?

 Somewhere, probably fifty years agoin the pouring rain |  the windshield wipers 

in TRAFFIC \\\ the passenger anxiously twists her dove    ....................................................gray gloves:::  a taxi waits at a light........she's "loath" to be stuck anywhere in the rain but truly loath to be stuck in a cab

|||||||||||||o ||k|||      the  R elentl ess ticking of a wristwatch–but, whose /////////////////

"I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry", she explained Just, JUST it's just that I'm 

l  l ll l llll. . . . . ...entranced but it's already a quarterpast 10

transfixed by a single sparkling raindrop......... . . . . . would  you?>>>> >  >>

rolling raining down the windows; reflecting, mirroring, casting  

amid a galaxy of  raindrops star-like, reminds me of //////     micro

each in its own universe.                      ........ 

some untold magic, of course. she ignored

-  - -    Not yet. I mean, not ever (((actually)))  the scene developing outside of the  safe confi n es of    this c ab ................––––––––--------- - - -

on the street the pedestrians, in the cold and wet running from never toward fear

spectral highlightstheir ruined shoes;and many without a coat that day            

bumping umbrellas, scrambling to get to)))))))no more than a newspaper to protect

destinations. themselves. But absorbed in thought 

and calmer finally.Andshegaveupon (((((((wait,what?

]]]]]]]]]]]being Lost o...................but thi s   d o esn't    ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫  ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫ ∫   ∫   ∫   ...........;;;;;;;;;;;...................\\\\\\\\\

on time and let the\\Familiarsound of ..>>the city

because |    windshield wipers put her into a deep Trance, perhaps inside every cab, things like this cannot be planned, she thought.  

the passenger, lulled by t he sound of t he windshield wiper s :::::::She felt disappeared, vanished------------the steady, oddly calming

Flow state due to the thump and track of the wiper blades:::on the glass

boots that were cracked, peeling and frankly no longer waterproof (and were  never warm to begin w/)  +

•••••••••••..................................................not..........................................................√

by the sound of  the windshiel d  wipers   

marking ..________t i me •