The brakes on ice are the sound
of a firing squad's machine guns
as I am sliding to a full stop
inches away from the end
of the winter road;
while the animal gets crushed
like snow beneath my tires;
and how was I to have guessed?

Whether I am the heavy machine
or I am the most fragile sheet of ice
there is always capacity to kill
the only real wheel we can grasp
is what we do with the responsibility.

-e.





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