UNTITLED

by Ryan J. Rader

This is not a matter of life and death--

--It's a goddamn

Shopping cart covered in mud along

The riverbank

It is not a running commentary

On grocery stores and pharmacies

And you are not the shopping cart

You are not covered in mud
You are high and dry
On a covered bridge above the river
I did not care

To see the shopping cart

Until you pointed it out to me

And then

I considered jumping

To grab it and wash it in the river

And push you home while your fingers

Grasped the metal lattice from

The inside of the shopping cart

This is the part where

We are struck by a passing

Pick-up truck and

Flung into the title