Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Driving Ms. Crazy


Push-push-push
the words away-
Not Now, I'm driving-
Go Away, I say
to some voice who speaks 
whenever cotton choosing
time it strikes, 
fancy that
despite the 
distraction and cost,
I lose
my place
I will remember that 
later
I think
and try to trace
that thought I thought
I knew-flew
out the cracked window 
and is stuck back in traffic...
A bump in the grind
passed over like a pothole
or just a poorly patched-
over up poem. 



Image from 1902 publication, 'Motors and Motor-driving' by Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.

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