As pandemic restrictions lesson and many feel safer traveling and gathering at homes, schools, and workplaces we’re also seeing the return of something familiar: traffic. That was the inspiration for this Typewriter Rodeo poem.
Traffic – The Return!
do you remember?
do you remember, my fellow humans?
how you would emerge from sheltered home
blinking at the light
looking left and right
and seeing no one?
how you would drive down the street
the highway, the thoroughfare
nervous to see
even the very few other vehicles
on the road
like bumper cars
in a haunted theme park?
the whole world, a ghost town
well now
the ghosts
are coming back
avenues filling with bodies, with cars
many even showing their faces
their faces!
i don’t think i’ve felt such
terror
such exhilaration
such sheer….annoyance
since the last time i rode this ride
back before the park shut down
and sent us all
home
