Short Seatbelt Poems

Carsick staring up at the sky
close the roof as the sun rolls by
my seatbelt is a gray tongue that licks me into my seat
I’m beat, I’m beat, I’m beat, I’m beat, I’m beat...

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a deafening thud
seatbelt hurriedly fastened
a fender bender
a cell phone quickly hidden
s/he can't explain what happened

written January 26, 2022...

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I have a seatbelt and a helmet in the loo
Eating chilli, precaution is a have to
With the flame from my rear
It was any mans fear
The G force in a spit second was zero to mach 2...

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Life is full of the unexpected

Both welcomed and not

Never knowing what each day will bring

From life’s mystery pot


So fasten your seatbelt

Enjoy the ride ahead

Try not to dwell on the hard times

Savour all the good times instead...

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The sound of my heart
Thump, Thump Thump
The tracks turn to start
Click, Click, Click
The coaster starts to move
Bum, Bum, Bum
My stomach starts to groove
Glur, Glur, Glur
The coaster lift itself 
Shwish, Shwish, Shwish
Forgot to check seatbelt
AH, AH, AH...

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That roller coaster’s SOoooooo
                                      real my stomach lurches
                                 and i hold ooooooNTO
                          the sides of my chair
                 WHatttt? Noooo seatbelt!
              the voices alongside
           my head say i mustn’t
        be loud SOoooooo
   in whispers Iiiiii scream
real Loooooooud!

11/16/2017...

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Screeches of the tires,
The impact of the crash.
The sound of the 
Water hitting the car.

I sit there trapped.
My seatbelt clings to
My weak body.
Unable to move.

As I sit there 
Water flowing in
There’s nothing I can do.
Paralyzed in this car.

Paralyzed like my mind.
Trapped in my own head.
As the water flows in.

The car is my mind,
The water is emotion.
There’s nothing I can do.
I feel paralyzed as 
These emotions overcome my mind....

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(This is a fictional poem)

I drove my taxi right after I smoked some pot.
I had a bad accident and a lengthy prison sentence was what I got.
I was taking a newlywed couple to a motel.
The crash I had killed them both and now my life is hell.
I was saved by my seatbelt but I wish I would've died too.
Living with this guilt isn't an easy thing to do.
If someone offers you marijuana, please say no.
Because if you drive right after smoking it, this prison is where you may go....

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Do not bring me to doctors’ appointments
unless you want me to tell the truth.
“I always wear my seatbelt,” you say.
“That is a lie,” I correct you.
“I threw away those pills,” you say.
“He took two of them yesterday,” I tell the nurse.
The nurse looks like she is going to cry.
This is about the eighth question,
and they have all gone the same way.
“I think I’ll wait outside in the waiting room,” I say.
If he wants to get medications based on lies,
is it really any of my business?...

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