You don't get a warning.
No airbag,
or parachute,
or goose-down mattress
will break the fall.

No.

All you get
is a car crash,
head-snapping whiplash,
and welts of restraint
on your neck.

Sorry, it's the best I can do.

07/06/2004

Author's Note: Topic from Joe Chiles. Alternate title: Side-swiped. Feedback?

Posted on 07/07/2004
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