A Fatalistic Approach.

Fatalistic Approach.

Death grinned
 

at me today
 

with a red slash
 

mixed with
 

an aluminum blur
  

at 97 miles an hour
 

as he cut in front
 

of my Le Sabre
 

forcing me to parry

his aggressive attack

and leaving my

brakes squealing
 

like a cheap violin
 

followed by swerving
 

loud cursing
 

and my saluting the
 

interloper with
 

a single digit

 
thrust out my window

at his vanishing

rear view

while other brassy horns 

played a medley 

between the breaks 

behind me.

 

A  garden of 

single fingers blossomed 

out of numerous fists 

in a bouquet 

presented to me?? 

as an encore

 
to my pause in 

the steady flow of traffic

while the guilty 

assinine, moron

with double ice guard

never saw  the angst

that was due him 

as he cut and 

maniacally wove his way 

through  a cloud of 

exhausted tempers 

with his eyes glaring 

daggers at any 

who dared to 

impede him.

Centered somewhere 

close in the midst 

of all this havoc 

death grinned at me 

his skull shining 

in the hot july sun 

and his cruel 

visage winking 

off the chrome bumpers 

of the cars left 

all around me 

Death snubbed me

on that day

at the particuliar minute

as his next statistic

but he  soon 

enough found

another impatient

and wreckless

disciple who would 

mesh two vehicles

into twisted, smoking  ruins 

and who would turn  

unsuspecting flesh

into hamburger scraped and 

spilled across 

the concrete.... 

Daily Road rage

that is directed against 

far more considerate 

and careful drivers

causes near misses of

vehicular homicide

just like this one 

far too often

across thousands 

of highways

Of course 

I noticed

as I restarted 

my journey

that all of the 

suddenly more 

alert drivers 

to the rear of me 

passed  by me  

in a parade 

of disgust 

huffing and puffing 

and flinging  

ugly glances my way 

as I become a 

false target 

for the cause of 

their delays.

This wasn't my first 

rodeo where I faced

angry horsepower 

seeking to eject me

through a window 

from my secure seating

and I know there 

will be many more


but today I 

barely escaped

another demon of 

death's fatalistic 

approaches 

and continued my 

life's journey. 

Be alert out there 

or be hurt

and Godspeed

to you all  on 

your passages

across death's favorite

stomping ground.

================(  O   O  )

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