Taxi

My own personal writing exercise, I took a line from "The Crack Up", which is the notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald and used it as the first line. Feel free to do the same if you'd like. For me, it wanted to be a poem, but maybe it won't for you, if you so choose to use it. I'm not so sure this is done yet, I haven't decided.


A taxi tipping over on a nervous night
Skidding tires on slick street rain
Crunch of metal and swirls of light
Overturning once, twice, and again

Heaven showers still rain falls
Dripping drops tell up from down
People huddled ‘gainst the walls
One by one begin to drown