Driving 154 m.p.h.

on the Northway
drugged up and drunk
snapchatting behind
the wheel, not some
wild country western
song, not a music video
and U tube sensation
but the newspaper headline,
the lead in a vehicular
homicide trial all local
TV stations covered.
What happens when
you total two cars, kill
young woman on the way
home from night classes
taken to try and get ahead.
She left behind two small
children. Even without
shackles and leg chains,
he walks with a limp now.
Something to remember her
by every day of his life.