Dodge and Drive

Yesterday behind the wheel:

I watch a man carry

the whole world in his hands

downtown on the street corner

dressed in business attire

he looks quite capable

of handling it but - not to worry -

it is just an inflatable globe.

A teen with a whole world

full of death wishes in his backpack

darts across six lanes of traffic

too busy, important or foolish

to walk the fifty metres

to the intersection

for safe passage

And another rolls across

through the intersection crosswalk

against the light on a longboard

rebels against

traffic control devices

that dare to say stop. Powerless

in face of immortal youth

This morning from the chaise:

Magpie, squirrel, finch and blackbird

flit, flight and fight around their feeder

like a flock of teen boys whose

whole world disappears

when food is involved

the daring and death defying

deeds of the day gone to seed



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