Speed Trap

Two cops know that reckless drivers
congregate here, and they make their budget
with fifty more tickets. The road is poorly designed,
it's banked wrong, it's a blind corner,

the tickets should go to the highway engineers.
Bill Gardner's fence has been rebuilt
eight times by the insurance company,
Bill doesn't care, he likes new fences,

they should replace the one along the river,
but it never gets run over.
Two crows follow the river
looking for spawned out salmon

washed up on a gravel bar,
they're like two cops
who know where to find the easy pickings,
and they're not going to change.