Flattened (Retro)

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This is from NaPM 2015. I always liked it, but a few issues I never resolved were the repetition of the word "wasn't" in lines 1 and 2, and the shoddy punctuation throughout. 

Flattened (Retro)
 
It wasn’t the scenic route.
There wasn’t one.
 
In Saskatchewan, the earth is still flat—
ask the locals.
 
We rolled west over beige carpet,                   beige is kind of boring, but maybe that's the point
where the sun sets from noon ‘til midnight.
 
It would burn your eyes out
if it weren’t for the bugs;
 
specimens like you see pinned in museums—
exploding on the windshield, diffusing the light.
 
In shifts, we scraped bloody windows                  do the bugs have red guts; my experience is that it's more a yellow/green glaze?
or rested bloody eyes.
 
Tomorrow, there would be mountains to climb.

Other than my two notes, I really enjoyed reading this over and over.