04-15-2018, 07:15 AM
Aroint Thee, Slick!
You’ll laugh, I know,
but more than death
I’m scared of ice.
Having rolled one car
and wrecked another on it—
that, and periodic pratfalls—
when I feel my vehicle’s rear end
begin to wander, or a foot
to slip, those memories
roll roiling in, my bowels begin
to liquify. So ice, betrayer
of assumptions, let me by!
You’ll laugh, I know,
but more than death
I’m scared of ice.
Having rolled one car
and wrecked another on it—
that, and periodic pratfalls—
when I feel my vehicle’s rear end
begin to wander, or a foot
to slip, those memories
roll roiling in, my bowels begin
to liquify. So ice, betrayer
of assumptions, let me by!
Non-practicing atheist