the jim affleck bridge
By Bill Tibben
Published 1 January 2021
somewhere on the southern highlands
someone stole a bowral bulldozer
and hooned it north screaming along
the lanes of a life movie in which he scripted
a police chase that could not catch him
and though he knows they'll radio ahead
even at 160k there's time to mentally rehearse
hollywood movie crash through stunts
the freeway curves toward a bridge
embankments trap the road spikes sprawl
swervedrive right through the cop all tyres blow
rollingcrashingover and over and over to a stop
he's jumping clear escaping his own scene
abandoning a silent living child