5 am cold sweats waking up to the skies

pulled my first all nighter of the semester on the very last night of it.
found myself walking empty streets cloaked in a heavy fog at 5 am, going to the 24 hour kinkos.
wound up in a car with three kids from my class, all of us drugged with lack of sleep.
it was a two minute drive back.
but we got lost, going the wrong way on one way streets.
the tops of sky scrapers disappeared into the fog.
it was supposed to be thunderstorming.
loud, bass heavy rap blared from the speakers as we careened through the streets.
we stopped short at every light, lurched around corners, backed up to change course.
we wound up in a tunnel, then on a highway.
pursuit of happiness came on.
it was a perfect way to end the year. so calm, so beautiful, so unexpected.