driving home

listening to

the detroit red wings hockey team

playing an international game in sweden

got distracted for a minute

 thinking about something 

soon realizing

i no longer heard the game

but was instead was now listening to 

christmas music

on a station

that jumps into the holiday music early each year

a station

i didn’t have programmed in

 didn’t flip to

an early christmas mystery/miracle/conspriacy perhaps?

did the wings somehow get beat out by santa?

—

“radio is the playground of coincidence.”

-sarah vowell