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The page turns expectation into an image of emptiness and then resolves into a small act of renunciation.

`A highway / without any billboards` is a strong image for stripped expectation: forward motion without instruction, advertisement, or promise. The closing decision to `throw away the / mail` makes the page feel anti-bureaucratic and anti-obligational, as though contact with the world has become disposable.

A single handwritten sentence built on one strong simile: 'OUR expectations / WERE like A highway / without any billboards'. The image equates having no expectations with a road stripped of advertising, pure forward motion with nothing selling itself along the way. The 'in other words' then cashes the metaphor out as an act, 'NEIL / Jack and I decided / to throw away the / MAIL.', refusing the world's claims and correspondence. A small manifesto of deliberate openness.