Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/grayscale-photo-of-vintage-car-parked-beside-house-94Nj3MzX2dI) 8. 11. 2024.
killer road
it was soon
after
our stolen car
had no story
beyond
a recklessness
taking us
nowhere
through speed traps
road blocks
and toward a dystopia
owned by the status quo
already aware
this had gone too far
did we slow and walk
to settle our differences
About the Author: Geoffrey Aitken [he/him] writes his awarded minimalism from Adelaide, on unceded Kaurna land, social conscience driven, post-retirement from senior school English teaching, motivated by student disaffiliation with curriculum poetry while he also leans on his ‘lived experience disability’ for [AUS] and [UK, US, HR, CAN, Fr & CN]. Recently, ‘Verge Anthology’ – [Monash Uni AUS], 'ZiNDaily' [HR], ‘Underbelly Press' [UK] & 'The Broken City' [CAN] then next at ‘Social Alternatives’ [AUS]. Nominated Best of the Net in 2022.
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