If you have no room
if your dog snaps at strangers
if you’re turning at the next set of lights
If you’re late for a wedding
if you tend to confuse hitch-hikers with prostitutes
if you’re planning on making a U-turn
and heading back the way you came
If you’re drinking and driving
if you’re on your way to the emergency room
if you want someone in the passenger seat
because the authorities are looking
for a lone driver
If you smoke with the windows rolled up
if you have small children in the car
if you’re a cop
You don’t have to stop
Kelly Shepherd‘s fifth poetry chapbook, entitled Fort
McMurray Tricksters, was recently published by Vancouver's Alfred Gustav Press.
He has a Creative Writing MFA from
UBC Okanagan, and is a poetry editor for the environmental philosophy journal The
Trumpeter. Kelly lives in Edmonton , Alberta ,
Canada
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