Crash Victim, 1965
The lone occupant and fatality was the driver,
extracted from the remains of his Chevrolet Impala
that crumpled head-on against the unsuspecting lamppost.
His car radio, fractured and bloodied as he,
was still playing a song by The Supremes.
There was no evidence that it was a case of DUI,
and the last words that he struggled to whisper on the stretcher
were a justification on why he ran the red light: I only stop
in the name of . . .