Landscape with the Haul of Icarus
Driving from work
Toward more daily chores
The lights from the pigs
Shook my head from the boar bore.
They blocked off the road:
Swindled by these swine
My car fell in line.
Further time from Caroline,
I wait in the car-o-line.
And the line thought –
“Come on, come on;
Stop moving so slow.
Let’s move this along;
I got places to go.”
Up ahead I could see,
Where the car hit the tree.
they loaded him onto a stretcher
and hauled him into the back of an ambulance
(a little red adorned his white wrappings (wax wings?))
“Come on, come on;
Stop moving so slow.
Let’s move this along;
I got places to go.”
Glass, metal, blood sunk
Into bark splintered tree trunk.
“Come on, Come on;
Stop moving so slow.
Let’s move this along;
I got places to go.”
The cops leaked us by,
I did the gas-pedal-lean,
Past another who couldn’t fly,
But wasn’t noth’en I ain’t seen.
Posted on March 28, 2012, in poetry and tagged driving, Icarus, life, mythology, philosophy, poetry, William Carlos Williams. Bookmark the permalink. 8 Comments.
Just to clarify: “Caroline” is my girlfriend’s name. I was on my way to pick her up.
LOL I got that, and nice pun btw, it’s always nice to see another as punny as me…
You spit truth, Josh who’s from Cleveland. shared this poem on our site’s twitter! #yolo
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Thanks Marco. That’s very diesel of you! Your Original Poetry People have some great poems as well. I’m down with OPP!
really good. a lot of ppl only think about themselves and fail to see the bigger picture
very much enjoyed this
very nice, makes me think about when I’m in a hurry all the time.. places to go bro!
Great view.
And slots in nicely with how hard it actually is to find out what happened in the accidents you see/hear about. They seem to never make the news so you don’t know if the people were okay.