The Contrary Spirit

[Szczepan]

Crashed his hearse
     on a one-way cul de sac                                 Aren't all cul-de-sacs one-way? Why mention it?
Survived his widow                          
    and he then drove back                                  Not a fan of this and the preceding line. Feels clunky, and no sense of time, but the




....
The poem has a whimsical feel at the beginning, which morphs into something more dark

Well, No. cul-de-sacs are never one-way.  
At least, I've never seem a one-way sign on a dead-end street! (If there were, how would you get back out?)
Indicates a place you can never leave  ... (metaphor intended) *

... nor can anyone survive his widow ! 

(... nor can anyone drive back from a place you can never leave.)

These passages (at least, as I saw things) were intended to add to the contrariness of the spirit.

Still working on some brush ups. Been kinda busy.

* although I just googled - almost all definitions say that it's a road with only one connection in or out ...but ...apparently in some parts of the world it could have a turn-around circle (which, I guess, means a small part of it is one-way). But, essentially, a cul de sac is basically synonymous with dead-end, no?

Btw, I took out a couple of lines that I considered too dark. Wasn't really going for Dark or even Dark Humor. Dark Whimsy is exactly the words that I had in my head as I finished off the penultimate touches. Odd that you should mention.

Thanks all for the feedback.