Run Over

RUN OVER a child’s mind at play with the words “he was run over by a mack truck” his books flew as he crossed the street from the public school not far away - a most busy street. did i say there is a school there? kids ne’er slow down - they keep trucking along. a huge tire track across a brown grocery bag the cover of an english book. a teenager on crutches (years later) on crutches, on crutches... how slow does a truck have to go to miss a small child with books? a child’s mind at play - the words had nowhere to go. i was still learning how to form sentences. how to express awe and place interjections! you cross our sleepy village, near the firehouse, (they don’t run over children) and cross the busy busy street to get to the school. i rode a bus to Catholic school, safe - except for one crazy nun, who’d run over some. 5/7/2019