Adrenaline

Tired and zoning silence
fills the car.
Only Modest Mouse
can be heard.

Midnight.

Traffic is heavy,
oncoming. They come
within a foot
of killing me.

Something snapped
me out of my trance.
I jerk the wheel,
avoid the asshole.

Barely.

Almost lose control
of my speeding vehicle.
Wide awake now.
He almost killed me.

Something must have
made me aware. Not Him.
Must have been
Modest Mouse.

She didn't see
them veering. Staring off,
lost in thought.

Contemplating

how well the car
was running.
Must have thought
me crazy. Are you alright,
her query.

I laugh hysterically
and wonder
why i jerked the wheel
at all.