Two Seconds
Heavy foot
removes itself
from one pedal
and slams onto
the other--
too late!
Two tons of steel
boxes travelling
at sixty miles an hour
scrape
scratch
crunch
into each other--
becoming one.
shards of glass
rocket and pierce
the skin
metal collapses and crushes
the heavy foot that was unable
to stop
in time.
all rights reserved. copyright Justin W. Price 2011
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PDXKaraokeGuy, also known as Justin W. Price, is the managing editor at eFiction horror. Husband to Andrea, father to two dogs. writer.poet.baseball fan. tattooed. He is am amateur theologian with a rabid sweet tooth. He resides in a suburb of Portland, Oregon.He has a poetry book available for Amazon Kindle, and also maintains a blog, FirstBlog. His work has been featured in the Crisis Chronicles, efiction Magazine, The Hellroaring Review, the Bellwether Review, eFiction Humor, and the Rusty Nail. Please visit his profile page for more information. Thanks!
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