On the Autobahn, going the equivalent of 100 miles an hour,
 
he passed a battered dirty white Citroen
 
and a series of slowly speeding Renaults.
 
We moved relentlessly on towards Munich.
      
There was snow on the banks of the highway,
       
_____and the dashboard webserver was receiving a serial irc story.
 
In a room by herself, a woman sat in a wheelchair.
   
In this almost empty room, she looked out the window - 
  
waiting for a man whom everyone else knew 
  
_____would never come.          
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