I-95 After School Drop-Off

soup for blood
viciously convenient
cut you off and scream downlane
let me get out of your way
not as care but denial
not as denial but self validation
look: i am nobody’s obstacle
terrifying myself awake
but only a very little
i clean like an act of war
making soup with a scowl
another self, from the gallery, smirks with an eyebrow

10/12/23