Speeding Stories

I drive too fast sometimesit's truemuchtoomuchtoomuchtoomuchtoofastI have the papers to prove itlittle slips of black and pink and whitefilled with numbersfiguresproofThey showi had somewhere else to be urgentlySomewhere elseanywhere but here(or there)So why is it thenthati have the time to write these words?Something doesn't add upNot the slips thoughthose add up well enough... 

Most all of us remember the first time we got behind the steering wheel of an automobile. For some it was the scariest time of our lives, for others the most exciting. We lived through it though and now we never think of those first days. I thought about those days just recently when chatting with my oldest daughter. She will be 40 next year and she contemplated her mortality a few times, as her older daughter became a te...