home      current issue      archives       columns      quotes       submit       staff      links 

Reduced Speed Ahead

By Raud Kennedy

____________________

   


His bottle of e.d. pills rolls across the dash

as they speed through the turn

in his new red Porsche.

His heavy 'girlfriend' has frosted hair

instead of gray.

Middle age is a washed out memory

in the rear view mirror

as the Grim Reaper

leans over the backs of their seats

and glances at their speed.

 

 

 ____________________

Raud Kennedy insists that this poem is in no way autobiographical.

 


(c) Defenestration Magazine, 2006