so let me see...

cars = constant warfare...

if we ride in them, bike near them, live next to them, manufacture them,
live above their fuel, or go to sleep listening to their roar...it's war
on us

i mean, enough of us die from car impacts each year to equal the U$ death
toll during vietnam...but we don't see a "war on terror" targeting cars...

old, young, beloveds of all species (so many crushed turtles and
raccoons!)...all scurrying about risking life and limb to simply go
somewhere close to home...and so many dont make it...crushed in bloody
smears and ugly tangles...

our lakes and streams fill with debris and residue from tires and fuel and
lubricants...

the air clogs with particles and gases...carbon levels soaring, arctic
life dying or moving on, ice caps melting, oil demand skyrocketing...

and ignorant profiteers make constant war to fill their pockets with so
much gold...

yet we feel like it is impossible to even imagine life without cars and
trucks...delivering our life to us every day...

*****

i was reading Al-Jazeera the other day thinking of the impact of the
images they publish...anguished families rending their clothing at funeral
after funeral in iraq and palestine...blood-soaked children in arms of
neighbors...we would riot if we could all see the cost of these war$...

and getting into a car (gasp!) last week i realized i'd probably never
open a car door again if i could see the car-wreck CARnage published in
the papers...if i saw the death and dismemberment printed like the truth
it is...if we were shown the real daily cost in simple terrible terms...

maybe then we'd live the world of my dreams where vehicles that get
stranded in pedestrian strongholds would be pelted with stones and
wrecked...and then dismantled by people hungry for parts and raw
materials...where car trips were difficult crossings made only out of
sheer necessity...where people could live each day without mortal fear of
hurtling death machines...

it's time to wake up on fire...

love,
wajid



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