choose the songs

To breathe is to accelerate 

into a sharp curve. 

 

It is not in your power to slow down. 

It is not in your power to choose the road. 

 

Your power 

(if you'd like to call it a power) 

is to choose the songs 

between now 

and the wreck. 

 

[Joe Wenderoth {1966- } 'Undergraduate Orientation', from If I Don’t Breathe How Do I Sleep]