Wednesday, October 20, 2010

crosses on the side of the road

crosses on
the side of the road
mark the spot
where someone died.

as old as earth is,
if there was a cross
everywhere a death occurred
the world would be
packed with sticks.

you could hardly
walk or drive anywhere.
it’d be tough to get from
here to the bathroom.

so how are you
supposed to
have a nice day
?

2 comments:

Annie said...

Hi Jack,
This is a great observation. In one way, the memorials are fitting; and it another way, they almost seem to trivialize the death, because we mostly ignore them, passing by, or try to, because it is difficult to think about the reality of those markers.

jack sender said...

Annie, your comments are always appreciated.

I hope I said it in the poem. The world we live in is old and people have died all over the place.