Car Accident Victim

squashed flat­ It seemed absurd to think of the number of times,

A dusty,X-ray photograph of someone’s delicate insides, lay outside, on the barren roadside­

that this poor soul had been run over.

I thought I saw traces of blood on the  furtherest corner of the print. I also detected a slight stench of death, but then, that smell is always present along Tyretracks traced a line along his brittle a speck of bird-shit on his left shoulder,

the roadside. backbone­

but, on close inspection, one could see,

that all his ribs were broken & that the backbone was split in two

& that the shoulderbone was fractured.

Obviously,the owner of this X-ray, had died in a car crash. Where was he?

who was he ? & how did this X-ray get here.

Just then, the wind whipped the print up into the sky for an instant & then carried it further on up the road for someone else to find

& ponder upon.