Highways
without Sidewalks
In how many
places
and cities
and
neighborhoods
and little
towns
must
children try
to ride
their bikes
amid
the cars
and cars
and cars
the cars
the many
cars
that dash
and crash
that whip
and turn
the
children's
our
children's
safe passage
can it
please
be found?
Thought provoking!
ReplyDeleteSome things stick with you. This is about a stretch of highway where I once lived. It was a highway that linked up to a huge highway that went to a much bigger city. It went past a poor section of neighborhood (where a lot of poorer families lived.) The cars bypassing this poor section to get to the big main highway drove really fast. And there was no sidewalk; nowhere for kids to ride or play or get from point 'A' to point 'B.'. Almost every week (it seemed) someone (new, else) was hit there (by a car) and many were, indeed killed. Nothing was (ever) done about it. Maybe something is done about it now, today. It always stuck in my craw as such an injustice. (Man's inhumanity to man.) I have another poem about my experience, driving by, when a little girl was indeed, killed along this highway (while on her bike.) My (now deceased) BIL treated her in the E.R. All efforts to revive her were not met with success. lg
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