Poetry Friday - Foggy Morning Drop-off

You in the Volvo!
Get back there.
Think you're so safe.
All the nerdy Swedes in the world won't save you,
You insist on edging out into traffic like that.

I saw three different cars jump the curb in the parking lot today.
Nobody knows where they are.
Nobody's safe
But everyone's sleepy.

Spilled my coffee trying not to hit
A van nosing out of a side street.
Would have been a slo-mo crash,
Both of us creeping so cautious.

Should have hit him.
Could have gotten our front end fixed.

 

If you are a Baltimorean like me, I hope to see you at the Living Poetry Flash Mob at noon on Saturday on the City Lit Stage! Poets Virginia Crawford and Laura Shovan are hosting a spontaneous poetry composition that you’ll want to try on for size. Attendees wearing Living Poetry Flash tee-shirts will “be arranged” into written on-the-spot, living poems. Tee-shirts can be made at home (instructions at www.authoramok.com) or picked up Friday and Saturday at the CityLit Stage.

 

Comments

[Anastasia Suen]

What a wild morning you had!

Thanks for participating in Poetry Friday this week!

:-) Anastasia

[Myra from GatheringBooks]

This sounds like a better version of 'road rage' - transforming one's feelings of irksomeness in verse almost-always works :) Have fun at the Living Poetry Flash Mob - I'm sure it's going to be loads of fun.

[riz]

hahahhaha very nice.