Robert M. Simmons  

from Added Entries (Poems 1991- )  

             Automobile Remote Control

Random bleeps

from an automobile remote control

stab the early morning hush.

The engine starts in an empty vehicle,

and a gray plume of exhaust

dissipates in the darkness.

Eventually a person appears

who speeds away in the nervous machine,

leaving my psyche slowly bleeding

by the side of the road.

                         © 2003 by Robert M. Simmons

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Automobile Remote Control