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A DEEPER LOOK AT CRASHING A CAR
You're moving now, a mobile missile
The onyx Cadillac grumbles, docile yet dangerous
Calm rides the blue sea-waves of your bloodstream
Engine shrilly testifies of your control
You are the master of this beast
It's carnal drive soothes you
It's thirst for blood awes you
A train track of tar in front of you
A world of power slides like clinking coins between your fingers
Eyes locked in front like a terminator
All is well in Zion, they say
A fledgling worm of a thought inflates as a ballon
Boiling gases straddle the recesses of your brain
A task so simple
It is done
But when eyes click back to reality, something's wrong
Shapes warp in flitting malevolence
Engine light in brain erupts
Whining
Beeping
Shapes contort like writhing rats
They form an obstacle, much too close
Right in front
Mind screams
Thoughts buzz
Instincts yell, yell, yell to your limbs
Foot smashes the breaks
Breaks gasp and whither
Too old too feeble too sick with metallic stroke
Obstacle slides so close
Breaks squeal in torturous agony
I'm trying I'm trying
CRASH
Clock resets like Groundhog Day
Time rolls, twists like a globe
Sends me back in time
I am a soldier
Normandy maybe
A German shell stomped the earth like a thousand boots of dynamite
Sand and earth wail like ghosts
Thoughts lean and flip like drunken acrobats
Maybe I'm in a video game
Suddenly all sounds melt and pool in muddy array
A stream of cognitive ringing replaces
Adrenaline sprays in my eyes
I am back
Are they dead
Am I Charles Manson?
Ted Bundy?
NO NO NO
Rushing now
The red sea-waves are crashing on me now
Crippling conscious emotion
I blink
Nope I'm still here
Not far from home but so lost in thought
There's no place like home
There's no crash like a totaled heart
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I recently got in a car accident and in that moment I felt very potent emotions. It was a horrific, slow motion kind of feeling that the never want to go through again. In that moment you believe you have maybe just become a murderer.