how many cars have I owned,
an American male, yet I always
seem to travel by thumb,
hitching my way from A to B  
or unwittingly to C
with another at the wheel
when will I be driving
making my own signaled turns  
pressing the pedal to the floor
or screeching to a stop  
in the middle
of a frantic freeway
rush hour, just to see
if anybody knows I am there  
when they hear
the crushing crash