Dead

By Judson Mitcham

You are dancing in your car, caught

slipping into the deep bass of "Exodus," the spirit -
voice of Bob Marley,
letting your shoulders go with it. You would laugh,

too, if you saw yourself, and if
you were someone else, because
there is a blindness in us all, and here it is:

you are ridiculous to the folks suddenly
beside you in their car
and who can't hear the song. It says open your eyes

it says are you satisfied
with the life you are living? If you can't dance,
alone in your car,

to Bob Marley, you may be dead already.