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.