Asian Cabbie

Cab outside my building
Halsted and Armitage, please

Asian driver
looks straight ahead

No smile

Accelerating and braking
every few feet
lurching my stomach into
the front seat

It just doesn’t have to be this way

Hope I never ride with him again

Cab outside my building
Halsted and Armitage, please

Asian kamikaze driver

Dammit!

Looks straight ahead

No smile; me neither

Accelerating and braking
every few feet
lurching my stomach into
the front seat

Why does he have to drive like this!

I will never ride with him again!

Cab outside my building
Halsted and Armitage, please

Asian kamikaze driver

Oh, no no no!

I open the door
Step to the curb

And my stomach is soothed