Speed Limits


I wonder about speed limits -
how it came to be that a particular number
                                                                                    25
                                                                                    45
                                                                                    65
should restrain our compulsion to move forward,
should regulate our progress.

They might also be
a standard of haste,
a benchmark for momentum,
the floor.

I wonder about speed limits -
I've been left to accelerate alone
I'm a motorcycle, a sedan, a potential van no longer.

I wonder about speed limits -
I am merging onto an unfamiliar highway,
and I don't know what the speed limit is.