parents and children, driving them from point A to point B.
At the usual 5 to 7 miles above the speed limit,
with a craggy, steep drop off to your right
leading to a deep and mostly frozen lake,
you come around a curved rise in the road.
Within feet is a toddler sitting
in the middle of your lane.
She has wandered away from a vehicle
coming the other way that is having car trouble
and has pulled to the rugged sloped curb
of the opposite lane.
Barreling down the highway,
in the opposite direction is a semi
carrying a full load of lumber.
What Would You Do?
Welcome to police work.
They are not all bad.
The immediacy of images, phrases,
clips and comments
create a culture of judgement
and fierce animosity.
Some need help.
Some need to chill.
An incredibly vast number of them
put their badge and life on the line
every single day ... for strangers.
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