Driving the highway
pay my respects to
squinched raccoon
squirrel flattened like
bearskin rug

‘Roadkill’ is what
people call these
roadway unfortunates
but I think that misses
so many marks

For it wasn’t
the road that killed them
but the innate urge we
all share to
periodically hit the road

Some creatures just
take that in a more
literal vein than others.